Kāinga Ora picks Porirua as guinea pig for untested process

Kāinga Ora picks Porirua as guinea pig for untested process
Katja Lietz is in talks with another nine developers and councils. (Image: Kāinga Ora)
Brent Melville
Kāinga Ora is eyeing up a proposed 6,000-home development near Porirua as the first under a two-year-old programme intended to fast-track urban density projects.However, it’s still likely to take another nine months of ‘assessment’ and consultation before the housing and urban development agency gets close to greenlighting the project as a specified development project (SDP).The SDP, which falls under the Urban Development Act 2020 enacted in August 2020, grants sweeping powers to the housing agency to bypass local planning re...

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