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Speaker 1: Ever do for ze Ellen.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it looks like Auckland's run into a major problem

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Speaker 2: with building more houses. We don't have enough water pipes.

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Speaker 2: Water Care has finally released a map which shows the

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Speaker 2: areas in Auckland that are facing restrictions on development because

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Speaker 2: of water connections. For example, on the Hibiscus Coast, anyone

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Speaker 2: without resource consent already could have to wait around six

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Speaker 2: years for a new waste water connection. Now Andrew Crosby

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Speaker 2: is from Expects Property Development.

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Speaker 1: Hey Andrew, Hi, how are you going ahead?

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Speaker 2: I'm very well. Thank you. Were you surprised when you

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Speaker 2: saw that map?

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Speaker 3: No, because that map has been hidden.

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Speaker 1: With water Care for who knows how long, but probably

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Speaker 1: many months, And it's taken a group of very dedicated

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Speaker 1: professionals who have set up a public advocacy company to

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Speaker 1: sort of help water Care release those maps. So everyone

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Speaker 1: who's bought land around Auckland has got resource consent knows

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Speaker 1: whether they can actually develop their properties or not because

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Speaker 1: of the infrastructure. We knew it was coming, we didn't

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Speaker 1: know exactly the extent of the map, and it's quite

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Speaker 1: surprising and perhaps shocking how much of Auckland literally has

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Speaker 1: no wastewater and water capacity.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was meaning. So you're not surprised

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Speaker 2: at the existence of the map, but you are surprised

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Speaker 2: at how extensive the kind of limitation is on where

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Speaker 2: you can build.

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Speaker 1: What happened literally only weeks ago, maybe months ago, people

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Speaker 1: in Otara Papatowi started receiving letters developers who have resource

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Speaker 1: consent are entitled to rely on their resource consent. They

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Speaker 1: started receiving letters on their engineering approval applications saying, sorry, guys,

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Speaker 1: there's no wastewater or water capacity in this area, we

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Speaker 1: can't give you engineering approval. And so that just started

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Speaker 1: slowly happening, and so we went quite sure of the extent.

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Speaker 3: And then the map was released, and.

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Speaker 1: You've got places like Beech Haven, you've got the whole

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Speaker 1: Hibiscus Coasts, you've got parts of Otara Papatoa, You've got wait, Takerei,

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Speaker 1: You've got East Auckland that the whole of East Auckland

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Speaker 1: has a color over it, basically saying it's not going

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Speaker 1: to be ready to twenty thirty five to twenty forty. So

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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean there'll be no development, but basically they're

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Speaker 1: saying if you want to do a little development here

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Speaker 1: and add some more affordable houses to the Auckland market.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, guys, our pipes aren't big enough.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but still a fair amount of area in the

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Speaker 2: a fair amount of land in the city area that

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Speaker 2: you can develop on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll tell that to the mum and dad developers

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Speaker 1: who have actually got resource consent when and spent tens

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Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars on building concent documentation and engineering applications,

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Speaker 1: only then to be told.

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Speaker 3: No, there's no capacity.

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Speaker 1: There's no fore warning, there are no civil engineers who

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Speaker 1: knew about this, there was no real transparency.

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Speaker 3: Good on water care for releasing the map. Now you

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Speaker 3: talking about Andrew.

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Speaker 2: Where if people spent money. Where if people spent money

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Speaker 2: to develop land and now they've been told they can't

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Speaker 2: well in.

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Speaker 3: These areas and Otara Pepetai.

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Speaker 2: But according to the map it looks like there is

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Speaker 2: ability to develop there.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a big orange chunk in the middle, which,

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Speaker 1: oh I see thousands and thousands of hectares.

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Speaker 3: Maybe not that much, but you know, there's a significance.

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Speaker 1: The map is quite shocking, and there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: people who spent money, they've bought sites based on development

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Speaker 1: that more than likely now they'll be told there's no

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Speaker 1: capacity for another ten years. So is you.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it feels to me as if water Care

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Speaker 2: has known but not been completely upfront about this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, How long have they known? I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but there were unofficial maps released by people on the

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Speaker 1: inside and they surfaced a month or three ago, so

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Speaker 1: I guess.

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Speaker 3: I mean, my theory is that when the.

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Speaker 1: Government, the previous government launched the MDRS rule, all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, council had to throw out a lot of

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Speaker 1: their plans. This is an Auklyn because all the unitary

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Speaker 1: planned had infrastructure signed, you'd think, and then the new

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Speaker 1: government put all these new rules in without thinking anything

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Speaker 1: about infrastructure, and then the council had to sort of

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Speaker 1: rapidly adapt. And now there's new areas which there's just

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Speaker 1: no infrastructure left as far as transmission and pipes and

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Speaker 1: all those sorts of things. So it's a bit of

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Speaker 1: a it's a bit of a puzzle and it's a

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Speaker 1: big problem, and I'm not sure what the solution is,

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Speaker 1: but at least being transparent now and getting that information

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Speaker 1: into the hands of everyone, you know, will slowly help

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Speaker 1: this so long.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, good luck with it, Andrew, Thanks very much

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Speaker 2: for talking us through. That's Andrew Crosby Expects property developments.

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