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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Christchurch council's 'intensification in sheep's clothing'
Description: Remember how much we loved the Christchurch City Council flipping the bird at the Government last year over housing intensification? It all started when the Government and the National Party joined forces to try and sort out the housing supply issues and came up with their one-size-fits-all idea of squeezing more people onto every block of land. And so they went to the Christchurch council - and every other council - and said ‘you have to start letting people build three, three-storey properties on one site’. And to its credit, before the local body...