Get rid of Auckland’s urban boundary - Labour
The party’s housing spokesperson, Phil Twyford, said the government has to rule out inclusion of an urban growth boundary in Auckland’s Unitary Plan if it is serious about fixing the housing crisis.
Restrictive land use rules have stopped the city growing up and out, while driving land and housing costs through the roof, he said.
This is because the urban growth boundary creates an artificial scarcity of land, which drives up section costs, and means that land inside the boundary is up to ten times more valuable than rural land.
Twyford said the urban growth boundary has to be done away with and government needs to make sure it doesn’t re-emerge under a different name.
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