LIMITS ON CITY INFILL HOUSING-ANOTHER ELECTION YEAR U-TURN
Still no change
with bad subdivisions
May 2007
Media Statement
Wellington City Council has done another U-turn in this election year with the latest changes to infill housing. The new announced limits on city infill housing follows an earlier u-turn on the shifting of the commercial rates differential. This is another cynical move under the Mayor Prendergast's watch in the hope of saving her political skin along with her cohorts, in the October election, Cr Pepperell said. There had been a long history of annoyance over the permissiveness of the district plan and it had been left unattended during the Prendergast watch. Like the shifting of wealth from the residential sector to the business sector, the damage has already been done and now that the property developers have exploited the plan and taken their profits the door is being closed as the property market prepares for a sharp correction.
Bryan Pepperell
Wellington City Councillor
posted by pepptalk at 2:32 PM
1 Comments:
There is only one real purpose behind 'In-Fill' Housing development:
Maximum profit for minimal investment.
The developer responsible for this particular effort has already been chastised for operating outside their planning consent.
I'm left pondering why, at this stage of the scheme's development, Mayor Prendergast's Council has seen fit to vary the compliance terms in favour of the Developer.
In other, more transparent civil authorities elsewhere in the civilised world, a Civil swing toward developer leniency would at least require some form of public explanation or scruitiny.
Apparently not so here in Wellington.
After all, we've already experienced the development surrounding 'Caro (Kerry) Drive'.
How much accommodated 'bending' was involved there?
Will the ratepayer ever know?
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