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Or even just following up on peoples complaints like councils should do.
Councils need to be following up on these complaints too.
I recently saw a very shonky looking construction made to look as if it were on wheels. It had a very dangerous power connection coming from a dilapidated shed on the same site. Sewage was going into a partially buried 44 gallon drum. This was in a semi rural situation and I imagine it won't be long before a complaint is made to council.
Shonky and dodgy edifices are quite another thing. Complaints to Councils could be just a case on jealousy, pissy neighbpours or NIMBYism. Picking extreme examples is - well - unhelpful.
Lets just make more space under bridges. That'll help with the housing crisis.
Just smile broadly and look sympathetic and all problems vanish. Lying eyes, anyone?
One thing is almost sure: none of the council bureaucrats involved will have ever been on a continuing education / professional development course that teaches common sense.
If it's felt harder to find a rental property lately, you're probably not imagining it. Trade Me says it experienced a 20 per cent increase in the number of inquiries about rental properties, year-on-year, in June. The national median asking rent remained at a record $500 a week.
Worse
Originally posted by Stuff
Berlin votes to freeze rent prices for five years. Rent too high? Well, if you live in Berlin, at least it won't be getting any higher . . . Berlin city council has voted to freeze rent prices for the next five years.
Wonder if the BCC will freeze food prices for five years, while they're at it?
Shonky and dodgy edifices are quite another thing. Complaints to Councils could be just a case on jealousy, pissy neighbpours or NIMBYism. Picking extreme examples is - well - unhelpful.
But the council shouldn't pick and choose which ones they even look at - should they?
They'll only know the facts after they have looked into it - often too late by then.
Yes, councils have played a large part in the underdevelopment of houses.
And yes, with these ones on wheels they're missing out on all the resource consent fees, development contributions, building consent fees and reserve contributions plus probably other fees.
-Sentiment in the construction sector has plummeted to its lowest level since 2009, according to the latest ANZ Business Outlook Survey.
And elsewhere in the economy things are not looking so flash either, with most of the indicators in the survey heading down.
-The significance of the latest survey is that it again shows a very weak picture of forward economic activity, just a week out from when the Reserve Bank has to make a decision about whether or not to cut the Official Cash Rate again in an attempt to stimulate the economy. It's widely expected that the RBNZ will cut again (to 1.25%) - and the ANZ for one is picking that it will need to cut again on top of this before the year is out.
ASB's also picking two cuts to the OCR before the end of the year, but in reaction to the latest ANZ survey, ASB senior economist Mark Smith said on Wednesday that the persistently weak business sentiment and a weak economic backdrop "provide growing risk that the trough in the OCR is below 1% in the current cycle".
ANZ Business Outlook Survey shows the worst sentiment in the construction sector since 2009, while overall business confidence has sagged again and more firms are expecting to cut staff
It will be interesting to see what they come up with re the tiny houses.
Having what is effectively a large caravan site unattached to the ground and lived in permanently may not be ideal in a high wind event.
I can see a few fall over if nothing is sorted.
Caravans fall over also but they aren't generally permanently lived in (or as tall).
If we reflect on the phenomenon a bit, it does reveal the breath-taking ineptitude of Dhil Twitford et al.
10,000 affordable houses each year? Nope - so much vote-buying empty rhetoric. The consequence of the failure means:
A 'super-power-ministry*' in gestation that can 'take' private land, override Councils, the RMA etc., and is not subject to the OIA.
Will the MBIE, where these yes-it-is, no-it-isn't tiny house determinations are coming from, be subject to the super-powered entity?
The MBIE already has a 'procurement' function section & staff.
Tiny homes-on-wheels do seem to fit the 'affordable house' category.
*Urban Development Authority the Draconian powers of which will enable it to override council plans and consenting laws, compulsorily acquire private land for its developments and impose new taxes on landowners.
A few MBIE decisions have come out that hold tiny houses to be buildings, whether they are on wheels or not. However, they also told councils to bugger off, when the councils wanted the tiny homes removed due to no building consent. MBIE made it clear that no such building consent is required, as no 'building work' takes place on site. (Of course, that doesn't hold true if the place is plumbed in or on foundations - the owners were made to bring those up to standard.)
The problem is, the manufacturers of these things blithely tell people they're caravans and don't need consent of any type, while my local council makes it clear that if it's a second dwelling, normal resource consent provisions apply.
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