Watercare are running a poorly publicised on-line forum right now. Connection costs will get up to around $55,000 in 2027
😡 Watercare are running a poorly publicised on-line forum right now. Connection costs will get up to around $55,000 in 2027 😡
This means that:
🏘️ A two bedroom affordable home pays the same amount as an eight bedroom luxury home to connect to fresh and waste water
🏘️ It really means that our affordable housing is going to SUBSIDIZE our mid-range and premium housing
✅ Six small two bedroom in-fill houses on a 1,000 m in-fill section pay $330,000 from 1 July 2027 (say around 18 people at maximum living there).
✅ One eight bedroom home with a two bedroom small unit or ‘granny flat’ on the same site will pay $110,000 (say around 18 people living on the same site).
Growth pays for growth… one way killing the city… where are our clever business people?
⁉️ GOUGING your affordable worker homes STOPS growth, there will be little and you WILL LOSE rating income.
🤔 Rates are your bread and butter — grow the rating base!!
TAKING MONEY FROM AFFORDABLE HOUSING… if you must then do it proportionally like the Local Government Act requires.
Add onto that, Watercare are demanding that the first mover also pays to upgrade entire public lines (180 meters to 100 mm pipe) for neighbourhoods.
One 5 home development may not go ahead because they have to pay for a pipe to service 30 homes… so who pays? who does the upgrade?
Where has ALL OF THE MONEY gone over the past years… into traffic management fees?
