Did Labour ever learn how to calculate?
Hmm - some Labour twit plans to build 4000 houses on 29 hectars to resolve our housing crisis:
https://www.interest.co.nz/property/...albert-will-be
Lets do the numbers: 4000 houses on 29 hectars are 138 houses per hectar (72 sqm per section), but given that sections still need access roads (roughly a quarter of the space in less denser housing) this leaves something like 50 sqm per section.
Lets assume no minimum distance to the neighboring houses (Think very small fully detached houses) and several stories (Basement needed to house the cars). It is just ridiculous.
David Seymour is putting Labours proposal in context:
Quote:
At Unitec, Twyford wants to put 4,000 homes on 29 hectares. A hectare is roughly the size of a rugby field. The densest area of Auckland at the moment is the Waitemata Local Board Area, taking in Parnell, the CBD, and some western inner-city suburbs such as Freeman’s Bay. It has a density of 19 dwellings per hectare. The Albert-Eden area has a density of 12 dwellings per hectare. Twyford’s proposal puts 138 dwellings per hectare. The new development will have seven times more homes on a given area than anywhere else in New Zealand. It will be nearly twelve times denser than the surrounding area.
from: http://act.org.nz/free-press-monday-...ar-act-policy/
So - Mr "Chinese sounding" names plans to more than 7-fold the dwelling density of the (so far) most densely populated Auckland suburb.
Maybe he should visit Hongkong, I understand they design now "nano apartments". This might be the future Labor has for all of us in mind:
http://www.scmp.com/business/article...uyers-continue
Lets do this :p