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Housing Affordability

Presentation to LGNZ Zone One Meeting

Ree Anderson

Manager 13 February 2013 Auckland Strategy & Research

Special Housing Areas – Opportunities and Challenges

Elizabeth Wells: SHA Consenting Manager Housing Project Office Auckland Council 24 June 2014

International Demographia Report:

• Ranked Auckland 347 out of 360 cities in terms of affordability;

and

• Auckland housing ranked “severely unaffordable” for the 10th

year in a row Auckland has multiple housing challenges: lack of choice, poor quality, unhealthy and overcrowded housing, as well as declining ownership and affordability

Our housing challenge

The response: Ak Housing Accord

• Formal partnership between

government and council

• Applies until Unitary Plan
• perative (late 2016)
• Affordability a key

component

• Accord target of 39,000

dwellings or sites consented within 3 years

HASHAA provisions

• Many RMA provisions apply, with

tweaks

• Weighting – Purpose of HASHA, Part ll
• f RMA, Unitary Plan, MfE urban design
• Plan variation - Future Urban to live

zoning: 130 working days

• Concurrent plan variations and consent

applications

• Notification limited to adjacent owners /

infrastructure providers only

• No appeals (except development over 3

storeys)

• One-stop-shop for applicants:

consenting, masterplanning, infrastructure and policy in one place

• Auckland Transport, Watercare,

stormwater reps in the office

• Integrated Plan changes, resource and

building consents

• Integration with government service

providers (education, health etc)

• Forward Land and Infrastructure

Program

• Collaborative “front loaded” no

surprises

Housing Project Office

Auckland Housing Accord, Auckland Plan & Proposed Unitary Plan Infrastructure availability / readiness Iwi views Land owner views Location Local board views Demand to build Demand for housing Affordability

Criteria

Special Housing Areas - Criteria

63 SHAs established

1,318

2,191 2,791 3,277 3,697 4,047 4,347 4,597 4,847 5,097 5,247 5,397

2,310

3,594 4,872 5,862 6,852 7,662 8,412 8,912 9,192 9,422 9,652 9,852

2,084

4,292 6,526 8,365 9,763 10,773 11,346 11,926 12,586 13,196 13,756 14,096 4,382 11,264 16,753 21,556 25,099 28,153 30,994 33,512 36,032 38,337 40,352 42,157 43,682

5,987 16,976 26,830 35,745 42,603 48,465 53,476 57,617 61,467 64,962 68,067 70,812 73,027 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Tranche 1 Tranche 2 Tranche 3 Known others

Over the next 12 years, just over 73,000 new dwellings are known to be in the pipeline.

Number of new dwellings that developers are known to be planning*

Auckland; 2014–2026; cumulative; calendar years; Auckland Council (Forward Land & Infrastructure Programme)

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* Known developments understate dwelling supply, as these figures only capture known developments of 5 or more dwellings.

Cumulative long term dwelling supply forecast

The 63 special housing areas are expected to supply about 10,000 dwellings or sections

• ver the 3 years of the Accord and will eventually deliver some 30,000 new dwellings.

Expected supply of new dwellings from special housing areas

Auckland; 2014–2026

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443 875 873 600 486 420 350 300 250 250 250 150 150 869 1,441 1,284 1,278 990 990 810 750 500 280 230 230 200 293 1,791 2,208 2,234 1,839 1,398 1,010 573 580 660 610 560 340

1,605 4,107 4,365 4,112 3,315 2,808 2,170 1,623 1,330 1,190 1,090 940 690 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Tranche 1 Tranche 2 Tranche 3 Combined total

Special housing areas – expected supply

Increasing numbers of consent applications are being received from developers in the 63 special housing areas that have been created since October 2013.

Stage Under consideration Approved Total expected new dwellings / sections Qualifying development pre-applications 18

N/A

1,374* Consent applications 4 18 317 Masterplanning pre-applications 18

N/A

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Consenting activity in special housing areas

Oct 2013 – Apr 2014; Auckland Council (Housing Project Office)

Special housing areas

Expected dwellings / sections during the Accord period Total expected new dwellings / sections over the long term

63 created to date* 10,077* 29,345*

*subject to change through the development process

* including the 41 special housing areas recommended in April 2014

Special housing areas – planning activity

Tranche four approach

• Assessing strategic areas, T3 deferrals, other requests
• Applying analysis as to where development can occur
• Likely to recommend in August

Quality neighbourhoods

• Collaborative masterplanning process
• Focus not just on houses, but entire neighbourhoods
• High-quality urban design incorporated (Unitary Plan and

AUDP)

• Social infrastructure considered along with civil

Master planning: Huapai Triangle

• Multiple owners
• Absence of wider structure

planning

• Comprehensive

masterplanning

• Transport implications
• Infrastructure funding
• Development agreements
• Plan variation required

• Increased density opportunities
• Emphasis on quality urban design outcomes
• Parking maximums
• Water sensitive design
• Sustainability provisions, universal access

Working with Unitary Plan

• % of dwellings that must be affordable are specified in the

Order in Council and differ between SHAs

• Generally 10% for ‘relative affordability’ and 5% for ‘retained

affordability’

• Relative affordability: based on 75% of the Auckland median

house price

Affordability

Contact us

• Email:

specialhousingarea@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

• Phone:

(09) 373 6292

• Ree Anderson: Project Director Housing –

ree.anderson@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

• Elizabeth Wells: Manager SHA Consenting – elizabeth.wells@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
• David Clelland: Manager Growth & Infrastructure Strategy –

david.clelland@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

• Allan McGregor: Manager SHA Masterplanning –

allan.mcgregor@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz