Budget approved for Papaioea Place

The additional units increase the number of eco-friendly unit replacements to 50 and was approved at an Extraordinary Council meeting on Monday (14 May 2018). Following an urban design review, a modified layout on the site allowed the additional units to be included...

Smaller Christchurch building companies struggling

Keith Carney has been a builder in Christchurch for 12 years. He said a few years ago he was booked out up to about a year in advance with five or six jobs on the go but lately he was having to take whatever he could get – even taking jobs he knew he would not...

Big wins in housing will come from regulation, not budgets

More new spending was limited by fiscal restraint. The big wins in reality will come from regulatory change, and that should be the priority for this government. The crisis in housing has been building for four decades. It took us a long time to get here, we should...