Auckland has gone Piebald in Colour: 15 November 2024
😧 Auckland has gone ‘piebald’ in colour 😧
BUT it is a good day for information transparency.
It is a bad day for housing in Auckland — have we just been woken up with what happens when unitary plans come about and not enough infrastructure is in place?
Many areas are now openly shown to be constrained. Connecting into the networks will not be possible for many years for those with unapproved resource consents.
🤔I have a question:
What happens for those in the 🎯Veolia and the 🎯Watercare network who were granted their Resource Consents, assured of site capacity only to find their EPAs declined — will you honour them and work through on a case-by-case basis?
I have been thinking about HOW this situation could possibly have occurred; I think I have a theory and that is all it is, a theory formed by connecting things I have seen and heard.
Is it that one group dealt with small subdivisions and only looked at the local capacity issues (a council team?).
Another group did the bigger subdivisions and looked at the transmission lines (Watercare and Veolia?).
I did see that through the IGCs more money was collected from Aucklanders last year $28.8 million (maybe 1,666 – 2,000 more houses than forecast?).
Did the units not connect? I don’t know?
What I do know is that as a developer, dealing with the council and its entities is fragmented. I have to produce a variation of the same documents for different departments, each document coming at a cost (pay for the consultant).
🤔 Is the council too big with too many somewhat independent parts?
Did you know that today’s capacity news, while a MAJOR step forwards for a collaborative Auckland, it is a HUGE MAJOR DEVASTATION for some. Land values plunging, projects shredded, and soon to come in some areas a land price surge and maybe housing shortage.
Sorry for being blunt, but I am taking a lot of calls, a lot of messages and only because I am ONE of the many developers and one who is not too scared to say what I think.
