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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Housing intensification is the future
Description: Be careful what you wish for. That’s how I’m feeling about the Government giving Christchurch an exemption from the new housing intensification rules, which would have enabled three, three-storey properties to be built on single sections anywhere in the city. Instead, that level of intensification is going to be limited to certain parts of town, including the city centre, Church Corner, Riccarton, Hornby, Linwood, Shirley, Merivale, Edgeware, and Papanui. But I think the Government is just letting Christchurch shoot itself in the foot. Because we will, eventually, come to regret it.