My vision for built environment and housing

I want to live in an Auckland where our built environment enhances our lifestyles, not hinders it.

Good quality housing is affordable, focused in areas with good infrastructure like transport, parks, and recreational facilities.

We’ve built the infrastructure we need to cope with our growing populations, delivering fresh water and dealing with sewage in a way that doesn’t harm the environment around us.

Community assets like parks are proactively managed so they’re safe, clean and enjoyable to use.

Housing intensification

1. Sensible, quality intensification (not urban sprawl) that provides better quality of life and more cost effective services. Focused around transit and town centres.

2. Protect our natural, cultural, and historical heritage for future generations - funding must follow to ensure we maintain them appropriately (too much has been left to decay)

3. Sensible planning and design guidelines ensure that the city is building houses that are accessible, warm and safe. These guidelines ensure that our city is in line with international best standards.

4. Accessibility requirements ensure that all new homes built are open to everyone. It’s cheaper, easier, and fairer to build in the accessibility we need at construction, rather than retrofitting later.

5. Protect fertile soils from urban sprawl (e.g. Pukekohe, Franklin)  with sensible limits on the edges of our city. These valuable lands should not be covered with concrete and asphalt - we must protect our food production.

1. Leverage Watercare's balance sheet separation to enable long term investment into water and sewage infrastructure while keeping water rates affordable.

2. Reduce stormwater and wastewater overflows that make our beaches and waterways unswimmable.

3. Continue to invest in stormwater resilience to reduce flooding impacts and protect people and property.

1. Ensure that the planned Ormiston Aquatic Centre is designed and built with accessibility in mind, to deliver a world class facility for everyone.

2. Protect our parks from sell-offs, we need our green spaces even more as we grow. Any revenue collected from asset sales must be returned to the local community and not put into general revenue.

3. Invest in our facilities like Lloyd Elsmore Skatepark to ensure they're fit for purpose, providing local opportunities for our youth. Other parts of Auckland have amazing recreational facilities yet East Auckland is being left behind.

4. Create safer communities through better design, supporting community patrols and greater enforcement of bylaws to discourage bad behaviour in our communities.

5. Ensure we see the end shoddy park maintenance by keeping the contractors honest and enforcing punishments agreed within contracts (e.g. fines).

6. Reduce reliance on chemical spraying in parks through use of mechanical and other alternatives.

7. Make every beach swimmable by investing heavily in water quality and stormwater infrastructure.

8. Taking urgent action to slow down and, where possible prevent, further soil and cliff erosion to protect our coastline green spaces and properties.

9. Reducing the impact of flooding by preparing our streets and infrastructure to cope with increased extreme weather events brought on by climate change.