Housing Minister Chris Bishop is set to double down on his war on house prices with a swathe of liberalising zoning and land reforms, to free up land markets and developers to deliver high and low density housing and commercial developments.
In a copy of a speech Bishop gave to the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand this morning, seen by *The Post*, Bishop will set house zoning targets for councils; scrap urban-rural limits; encourage mixed use zoning; and get rid of minimum floor sizes and balcony requirements for apartments, while Government will much more tightly define high density transport corridors eligible for development.
