Executive Summary
HOUSING
Building consents granted 1688
UP
28%
dwellings granted
ON 2020
Economy
Dwellings granted, 2021 RO TO
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RUAKURA 147 ROTOKAURI 33
Despite peoples unconstrained preferences, increasing cost of land and more recently the cost of building has made attached housing and apartments more attractive. Hamilton has experienced a strong trend away from standalone homes to duplex and townhouses in both infill and greenfield areas. The intensification requirements set out recently by government in the National Policy Statement on Urban Development and the new changes to the Resource Management Act that allows greater intensification without resource consent, will be transformative and we expect to see this trend towards duplex and townhouses continue.
Hamilton City Council - 2021 Hamilton Annual Economic Report
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PEACOCKE 48
People
The rise of duplex and townhouse living A housing preference survey The Housing We’d Choose, described in more detail on page 38, was conducted across the Waipaa-WaikatoHamilton area in 2020 and showed that, despite strong central government direction for councils to enable increased attached housing and apartments, people still had a strong preference for a standalone house.
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Commercial
Rototuna has been the focus of Hamilton’s greenfield expansion to date, with nearly 4000 new homes built in the last 10 years. Peacocke and Ruakura each added about 620 new homes to the city over the same period. We expect continued strong growth in Rototuna at an estimated rate of about 300 to 400 new homes per year for the over the next five years.
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Housing
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HAMILTON
Introduction
For every 100 new homes built in Hamilton over the last 10 years, 53 were in an infill area and 33 were in Rototuna.
