The Housing and Urban Development Ministry (HUD) has been given the go-ahead to subdivide almost 40 hectares of land in central Auckland in preparation for thousands of new homes.
An independent expert consenting panel today approved HUD’s application for fast-track consent to subdivide the old Unitec land on the boundary of Mt Albert and Pt Chevalier.
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It will allow the land owner, the Crown, to convert the seven existing lots on Carrington Rd and Rhodes Ave - 39.7ha - to seven new “megalots” and five “potential open space lots”.
The megalots will eventually be developed by Waiohua-Tāmaki, Marutūāhu and Ngāti Whātua rōpū.