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AUGUST 11, 2022
Planners point finger Act will ‘pit public against council’
The plan change introduces 91 character properties, like this one in Cambridge. By Mary Anne Gill
Two Waipā planners have lashed out at the government for its controversial housing intensification plans which they say is heavy handed and will change the face of the district. People will be able to build three homes on one section of up to three storeys – or up to 11m high - on most sites in Cambridge, Te
Awamutu and Kihikihi without the need for a resource consent. Veteran planner Wayne Allan, who has been with the council since 1989 and is now the District Growth and Regulatory group manager said the act would wrongly pit the public against the council. “We will have bigger, higher houses, closer to boundaries,” he said and there would be little the
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council could do about it. “Things that our communities have enjoyed, that sense of place. That’s why people want to come and live in our towns because of our character. It will erode that level of character. “They haven’t come to our communities to be subjected to multi development next to their houses as of right.” Building consent will still be
required, so the quality of the homes themselves will need to meet a standard. The district’s infrastructure – roads and pipes - are unable to handle the changes without spending millions of dollars, said Allan and developers would have to fund many of those improvements. “We need to be clear we support medium densities in the right
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locations… where the development can be accommodated, next to parks, reserves, or the expressway for example,” he said. District Plan and Growth manager Tony Quickfall said the legislation was “unplanned growth and houses at any cost.” “We’re the messengers here to our communities of the complexity,” said Allan.
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