Auckland mayor Len Brown has just announced a "significant" number of new approvals of special housing areas will be revealed today.
Under its accord with the Government, Auckland Council has already approved many new fast-track housing estates since late last year and Brown.
Brown told Radio Live this morning that
initial site works had begun on two of those sites but he acknowledged construction of the houses had yet to begin. An announcement giving details of the locations and numbers of new houses to be built in the latest approved SHAs is due this afternoon.
The agreement between the Government and the council aims to approve 39,000 new residences over a three-year period.
SHAs have already been approved in the Auckland suburbs of Newmarket, Takapuna and on the city's western and southern outskirts. Most of the approvals so far have been for townhouses and apartments on small plots, rather than stand-alone traditional housing on big sections.
