Overview of Panuku Housing Initiatives – Briefing Notes: Feb 2021
Auckland Plan
Housing Continuum
Panuku’s urban regeneration activity contributes to achieving the six outcomes of the Auckland Plan. Our agreed
Panuku facilitates opportunities to increase the supply of new, sustainable homes across the housing
priority development locations are aligned with the Auckland Plan Development Strategy. Our housing initiatives
continuum on surplus council land in our priority development locations. Panuku does not build
directly contribute to
Homes and Places and
Belonging outcomes.
houses directly, but rather facilitates developments that achieve a good balance of strategic and
commercial outcomes working closely with our development partners.
Sustainable design
Panuku facilitates warm, dry, sustainable homes through its requirements for Homestar 6
certification. Wilsher Village (Henderson) completed in late 2019 for Haumaru Housing provides
affordable, high quality rental housing for older people.
Priority development locations - Panuku is currently active in 13 urban transform & unlock locations across Tāmaki
Makaurau.
In Wynyard Quarter a higher standard (Homestar 7) is required.
Accessible design
Panuku is exploring opportunities to pilot accessible design within our partner’s housing projects
using the Homestar inclusive design credit. This work focuses on promoting opportunities to design
homes that are visitable and adaptable.
Innovative housing
Priority location updates
Kōtuitui Place (Barrowcliffe)
Panuku looks to identify opportunities to develop innovative
Panmure
This is Panuku’s largest comprehensive affordable, mixed tenure housing
housing solutions – e.g. innovative housing models, enhanced
project and will deliver 304 new affordable homes. The project is a
Pipeline of approx. 700+ new homes on sites in Panmure.
community outcomes and construction methods. Some areas we
col aboration amongst Panuku, NZ Housing Foundation and Te Akitai
have investigated include:
Working in partnership with:
Waiohua (Te Akitai) on a 5.1ha site adjacent to the Manukau town centre and
south-western motorway. The development offers a range of housing from
•
Community focused housing
- Tāmaki Regeneration
one-bedroom apartments to four-bedroom homes. The development
- Kāinga Ora
As part of our urban regeneration role in 2019/2020 Panuku
contributes to wider regeneration plans for Manukau.
- Private developers
worked with The Urban Advisory to investigate community focused
housing models to find out more about what barriers exist (e.g.
legal, financial, governance) and what would need to change to
facilitate a community focused housing scheme to be implemented
in the NZ context.
What did we conclude at this time?
• The test case thoroughly examined the different models. It
Onehunga
highlighted various development risks, legal and
implementation issues that meant it was not considered
Pipeline of approx. 938 new homes on sites in Onehunga.
feasible to progress at this point.
Avondale
• The key issue is that neither council nor Panuku have the
Update (Feb 2021):
mandate to underwrite significant development risk
Facilitating 586 new homes on sites in Avondale (2018-2025).
(c.$25m). A smaller scale pilot is likely to be more practical.
• 304 new homes planned, including communal living building
• Panuku remain fully supportive of new and alternative
Working in partnership with:
• 120 families in occupation
housing models and working with others to overcome
• 33 homes are under construction
- MHUD
some of the barriers the case study identified. Panuku
•
-
CORT apartment rentals (12 homes/units) soon to be completed
Kāinga Ora
continues to be open to engagement with council, Kāinga
•
- NZ Housing Foundation
134 stil to be completed, of which there is a “waiting list” for most
Ora and other stakeholders on a range of affordable
- Ockham
of the terraces. 12 of these are walk-up apartments which wil be
housing models.
completed in around 6 months.
• Barrowcliffe Bridge is being upgraded to improve access &
connectivity with the town centre.
Wor king in partner ship
Strong collaborative relationships are key to our success and successful town centre regeneration – we develop positive strategic partnerships with the Crown/Kāinga Ora, Mana Whenua/Iwi, Community & Māori Housing Providers
to enable a range of housing opportunities in our locations. We regularly share information with our strategic partners including the pipeline of sites to be sold for housing. This includes Iwi who have an opportunity to identify up-
front any sites they may be interested in developing for commercial purposes.
Update provided by Brenna Waghorn GM Strategy & Planning, Naomi Craymer Senior Policy Advisor, Panuku (16 February 2021)
