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Enable thriving cities and infrastructure
- Build both up and out. Ensure good urban design by encouraging intensification around key transport nodes.
- Abolish rating differentials.
- Alternative funding mechanisms.
- Ring-fence development contributions.
Transform the planning system
- 30-year regional planning with development/infrastructure sector and outcomes focused.
- Priorities of resources and environmental limits are decided at a national level with cross-partisan support.
Adopt fairer regulation and tax settings
Deliver housing that enhances communities
- Increase housing supply.
- Further champion the Build to Rent housing sector.
- Cap local authority liability to 20%, establish minimum insurance requirements, develop a National Register of Products, create an independent regulator for consent applications, and create National or Regional Consenting authorities.
Improve sustainability and resilience
- Government and the property industry collaborate on reducing the emissions of the built environment.
- Targeted incentives for buildings that invest in energy efficiency and clean energy.
- Work with the private sector to collect data in order to set national energy efficiency benchmarks for the operation of buildings.
- Mandate advertisement of energy efficiency ratings on the lease/sale of buildings.
- Introduce tax deductions for the costs of seismic strengthening.
Improve sustainability
and resilience
Priority:
Government and the property industry collaborate on reducing the emissions of the built environment.
No announcement.
Pass waste minimisation legislation.
Mandate waste reduction targets for the building and construction sector, including waste minimisation plans.
Partner with Fonterra to reduce coal emissions and partner with BlackRock to make NZ 100% renewable energy by 2030.
No announcement.
Priority:
Targeted incentives for buildings that invest in energy efficiency and clean energy.
No announcement.
Introduce development bonuses to provide an extra one-third height allowance beyond underlying planning provisions, for buildings that meet high standards of energy efficiency and accessibility.
$4,000 rebate to install rooftop solar panels and batteries on residential properties.
Incentives for residential buildings to invest in energy efficiency upgrades.
No announcement.
No announcement.
$1bn Pūngao Auaha fund for Māori-owned community energy projects and solar panel and insulation installations on marae, kura, homes and papakāinga housing developments.
No announcement.
Priority:
Work with the private sector to collect data in order to set national energy efficiency benchmarks for the operation of buildings.
Develop a comprehensive nationally-coordinated environmental monitoring system and strategy to fill current data gaps.
Introduce incentives for building products i.e. Carbon credits for timber which is milled and turned into framing.
Provide adequate resourcing to ensure robust data collection and transparent reporting under the revised framework.
No announcement.
No announcement.
Priority:
Mandate advertisement of energy efficiency ratings on the lease/sale of buildings.
No announcement.
Establish a requirement for residential and commercial buildings to carry an energy performance rating when put up for sale or rent.
However, the policy also wants to create a single-building energy performance rating system.
No announcement.
No announcement.
Priority:
Introduce tax deductions for the costs of seismic strengthening.
No announcement.
No announcement.
No announcement.
No announcement.
Disclaimer
Please note, this information was current as of 11 September 2023 and will continue to be updated as policies are announced, as best as they can be interpreted. Property Council New Zealand takes no responsibility for incorrect data but will do our best to ensure this is correct.