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Speaker 1: Heather Do for Sel.

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Speaker 2: The government's announced it's making it easier to build a

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Speaker 2: granny flat by changing the rules so any structure up

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Speaker 2: to sixty square meters will not need consent. The government

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Speaker 2: is beginning consultation today with the aim to have the

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Speaker 2: law changed by midnext year. Christ Bishop as the Housing

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Speaker 2: Minister high bish Hello, is there a big demand for this?

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Speaker 1: I think there's going to be a massive demand. I

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Speaker 1: get people probably emailing at me every but I don't know,

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Speaker 1: at least every month or so saying how do we

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Speaker 1: make it easiest to build a small granny flat out

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Speaker 1: the back of my property. I want to do it.

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Speaker 1: I want to put grand grandma or granddad or you know,

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Speaker 1: you've got families with teenage daughters at the back, university kids,

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Speaker 1: you know. I think it's going to appeal to a

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Speaker 1: lot of different people, and it's about housing and supply. Fundamentally,

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Speaker 1: our problems are we don't have enough houses and you know,

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Speaker 1: smaller properties sixty square meters them below that they can

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Speaker 1: be part of solution.

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Speaker 2: And what about the land that they're plunked onto. Is

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Speaker 2: there a requirement for how big that has to be

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Speaker 2: out in the backyard?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the discussion document's got some some proposals in there

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Speaker 1: around site coverage where we're consulting on sixty seventy, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: But the key point is that once we get the

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Speaker 1: finer details worked out, you won't need a resource consent

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Speaker 1: and you won't need a building consent as long as

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Speaker 1: you can buy off the building code and you need

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Speaker 1: a license and you've got a licensed building practitioner doing

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Speaker 1: the building.

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Speaker 2: Somebody text in earlier and said it will still need

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Speaker 2: some sort of consent because you've got to consent the bathroom.

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Speaker 2: Is that true.

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Speaker 1: No, you won't need a building consent for the bathroom.

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Speaker 1: As long as you comply with the rules around complying

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Speaker 1: with the building code and getting a license building practitioners

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Speaker 1: and supervisor work or do the work, you will have

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Speaker 1: an exemption from the Building Act. We're going to change

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Speaker 1: the water allow that to take place.

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Speaker 2: Is there any limit on how many of these granny

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Speaker 2: flats you can build on one property?

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Speaker 1: Yes, just one's all one, So this is not a

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Speaker 1: free for all where you can put five out the back.

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Speaker 1: Those are the different rules regarding that this is just

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Speaker 1: about a small or sixty square meter or below structure

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Speaker 1: out the back of your property or on your property.

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Speaker 1: You won't need a resource consent there for really the

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Speaker 1: world and some councils, it's just not consistent across the country.

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Speaker 1: So we'll be making it mandatory and required across the

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Speaker 1: count across the country for both rural and residential councils.

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Speaker 1: And then once we change the Building Act, you won't

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Speaker 1: need a building consent either.

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Speaker 2: Do you imagine that there's going to be a bit

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Speaker 2: of blowback from neighbors who maybe don't want this kind

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Speaker 2: of density.

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Speaker 1: Well, I hope not to be honest. I mean, we're

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Speaker 1: talking about single story, quite small dwellings here that you

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Speaker 1: don't really have an impact on anybody. These are these

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Speaker 1: are structures designed to get more people in warm, dry

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Speaker 1: houses and that's fundamentally what New zeal needs more of

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Speaker 1: and so that's what we're doing today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time, Chris really appreciated

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Speaker 2: Chris Bishop, the Housing Minister. For more from Hither Duplessy

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