Bishop promises ghettos and sprawl – all the worst elements of the housing crisis in one National Party policy

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Martyn Bradbury
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Jesus wept, it’s all of National’s bad ideas all at once…

Government to ‘flood’ cities with more housing by liberalising planning rules

    • Housing Minister Chris Bishop will announce plans to increase land for development to tackle the housing crisis.
    • Bishop’s reforms will remove council powers over urban boundaries and development standards.
    • The Government will require councils to plan for 30 years of housing growth.

…here’s what it means in practice, Ghettos and Urban Sprawl!

We need density and more public housing what we are going to get are shoebox ghettos and Auckland’s most southern suburb now being Hamilton.

This isn’t a fucking solution, it’s a desperate dash to remove any red tape in the faint hope that will generate some economic activity.

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It won’t, this lack of economic activity has been directly created by Bishop himself with the pause on State House building which has created a down stream crash of Construction Companies who no longer have certainty of their builds.

They are removing any restriction in the hope to get any economic momentum as the economy looks set to dangerously sink.

This is a mistake of Bishop’s own making and he is prepared to sacrifice any and all public planning codes to save his own skin.

We are in so much danger from this stupid Government.

28 COMMENTS

  1. Im sure families with kids will feel really pleased that Bishop thinks it will be fine for them all to live in a 30sqm shoe box in the middle of now where .No balcony means no opening windows and just air conditioning for so called fresh air .I can see a massive explosion in domestic violence as these families have no personal space .But they will be affordable at 500k each to buy and 500 a week to rent .Is he fucking truely thinking this is what kiwis want .Then there is all the new subdivisions he thinks will just pop up over night .Where are the piped and roads going to come from ?certainly the subdividers wont want to be paying for them .All we will see is the odd cluster of houses here and there with a dirt road and not much else .The nearest school will be 20km away with no public transport .

    • His next announcement will be how he is cutting red tape to building regs to “encourage” high density builds.

      Of course this means that property developers won’t cut corners and costs, and those “homes” will most certainly be habitats that will be healthy (sarc).

    • Yes….Bishop is yet another example of a clueless impractical National/ Coalition of Chaos Minister .

      His reckons are so stupid snd so ill thought through it’s hard to know where to start.

      If he wants the cost of housing to come down how about allowing in only one /tenth of the number of immigrants..There’s no way you can keep building enough houses to keep up with, and satiate, the rampant 100,000 plus coming in per year….That’s just pure insanity!!

      Interestingly Bishop chose to soeak to the realestate institute.
      What the fuck had it got to do with them.
      What he should have been telling them is that their outrageous fees are adding $50,000 plus to every house sale price and the whole fee structure is going to change…ie; a flat rate price of $ 10,000 and they also pay for whatever advertising they think they need to make a sale

      They can actually do some fucken work for a change instead of being a pack of greedy oportunistic grifters.That’s the language he should be using to that lot.

      This will immediately reduce the overall price paid for a house
      by $50- $100,000.

      The other stupid ‘no minimum floor area requirement’ is so stupid that it redefines the word stupidity.
      His rationale was that it’s better than living in a car or tent.Duh!!
      So is he saying that families living in cars and tents will suddenly be able to afford to buy a new 20sq metre no balcony apartment. Add on the realestate agent fees and you are still talking $500,000 plus annual management fees.

      This is a cuckoo land minister in a cuckoo land party in a cuckoo land coalition whose chicken’s are about to come home to roost.

  3. And of course our indebted councils can’t afford to build the infrastructure to support this sprawl.
    The deliberate ploy of underfunding local bodies and/or reneging on central govt. obligations naturally forces privatisation: enter the overpaid CEO’s and their parasitic shareholders to bleed you dry.
    NZFActional – betraying Kiwis since forever.

  4. There’s no way anyone should trust a tobacco company rep, and he certainly shouldn’t be a Minister.
    The lack of regulation looks worse than the Wellington City Council extremists, who he’s copying, and who think only in terms of demolishing heritage buildings and aesthetically pleasing buildings, and replacing them with boxes suitable for singles and couples with self- centred pleasure -centred life-styles, and clueless about the realities of life for people different from them. Dreadful for children, and for people reaching old age still trapped in them.

    Successful apartment living has evolved in great cities, but is more and more now being subjected to various regulations which Bishop may be wilfully ignoring, IMO. Furthermore, they are tenanted by people for whom such living is a norm, far different from the historical quarter-acre section of New Zealand, and who tend to have a societal outlook very different from this hick from the Hutt Valley and a government headed by a buffoon who has said that he doesn’t care if his policies don’t work.

  5. Around the world people live in small apartments why are Kiwi so different.The smallest apartment would be bigger than a car or caravan.
    Talk of no drains or roads is just silly talk.

    • Some people live in drains, under bridges, in alleyways, tree huts are a luxury…so whats your point dickhead?

    • Trevor New Zealand’s state housing was among the best in the world, and much superior to the hastily built accommodations erected in Britain in the aftermath of WW11 out of sheer necessity. Ours was planned for families, and many still stand and have stood the test of time. We were different, and better for being so. Then along the way, successive governments have let people down very badly, by incompetency, or something even worse.

      The current dystopian dimension with the National government enticing Asians from over-crowded countries to come here and provide cheap exploitable labour when there is a homelessness crisis, is disgraceful, amoral, and to my way of thinking, criminally negligent.

      Your now saying that New Zealanders should accept second and third rate living conditions because people elsewhere do, is worse than defeatist, and it is an acknowledgment of present and past governments’ failure to do their job properly. This is just one more area where we used to be a world leader but have regressed in a shockingly damaging way. Not good enough.

  6. ” This is a mistake of Bishop’s own making and he is prepared to sacrifice any and all public planning codes to save his own skin. ”

    But Bishop and his colleagues and the enablers will NEVER have to live in these shoe box ghetto’s so mistakes or not he will never be disadvantaged or harmed by this policy.

    And with privatization the usual suspects will profit from this policy of a deliberate human farm and all the misery that will bring.

  7. People don’t live in their cars. People sleep in them. They live around cars. Good luck living around a 20sqm box.

  9. Chris Bishop driving the ministerial car past the stacks of containers at CentrePort and going hmmmmm?

  10. The criminals who invented the vector that’s become the national party identity from back in 1936 are now in a free fall of stupid. Their callous lies and costly misdeeds are mutating into stupid because they have nowhere else to go to be dumber and expect to get away with it. The truth will have nothing to do with them and neither will the facts. Reality for them has returned as a cold, harsh sense of being close to vomiting while needing to shit while everyone’s closely and solemnly watching. Serves them fucking right.

  11. It’s so NAct can keep up immigration by cramming more people into housing as cheaply as possible.
    This strategy is not being undertaken to relieve the housing crisis, as new immigrants will maintain the pressure on housing with no net gain except to reduce the quality (size, design/buiding standards/criteria) of existing stock.
    Rather, it’s for the sugar high of propping up faux economic growth by using the so called investment brought in by immigrants. It’s done to keep immigration numbers up.

    It’s a losing strategy over the longer term, problems will be reaped in the future.

  12. Shows how fucked up the buffoon is .He earns 200k a year and still scams his inlaws and pays them less than market rent because he cant buy a house .So his answer is lets flood the country with car sized apartments and sell them as being affordable at 500k .Come the next election he will be saying look I built 200 car crates for people to live in but no one wants them so there is no longer a housing shortage .He will deny that the sale of tents has trippled in that time

    • Gordon Bishop is the politician whose own father wrote some sort of column complaining about not being able to buy a hot sausage roll at a Wellington petrol station. Think about that. Think about the people who live in what is now called “ food poverty”, and families dependent upon kids getting a decent meal at school, which this government also tried to abolish, a government which sends hungry folk off to charities for food parcels, while Bishop MP entertains his troops with crayfish.

      Think about people living days and weeks without hot food, or hot water, or hot anything, because the electricity has been cut off by power companies charging exorbitant prices for a basic need, and making huge profits just like the supermarket owners do.

      Think about people sitting in the local library all day to keep warm, or spending the day travelling around on a bus with a bus pass to keep warm, not a practical option for most. An elderly neighbour turns his hot water off for days at a time to keep costs down and he smells. An old lady forages in NWS’s instore rubbish bins for discarded cabbage and lettuce leaves.

      Bishop isn’t the only politician who should be booted out at the next election, but he’ll land himself another cushy well-paid job one way or another.

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