Property Management

Slums cry greets city housing idea

A tenfold increase in intensification and a ban on building single houses in selected suburbs are being floated for Auckland City.

Monday, November 24th 2003

Planners are starting to worry about how to squeeze more people inside the city's bulging waistline and have come up with new ideas to achieve intensification targets.

Among the ideas are rezoning large swathes in 19 suburbs to take 200 to 300 dwellings a hectare, starting with Newmarket, Glen Innes, Panmure, Mt Wellington quarry, Otahuhu and Avondale. The typical density of these suburbs is 20 to 30 dwellings a hectare.

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