Bigger, denser, less rule-bound Auckland recommended in draft Unitary Plan

Bigger, denser, less rule-bound Auckland recommended in draft Unitary Plan
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie July 27 (BusinessDesk) - Auckland will be more densely populated, have a 30 percent larger new urban area and a far less prescriptive set of rules for new residential developments than the plan put forward by the Auckland Council, if recommendations of an independent panel are adopted. The council now has until Aug. 19 to decide whether and how many of the recommendations of the Independent Hearing Panel, which was appointed to come up with a close-to-final version of the Auckland Unitary Plan, to adopt. The enormous a...