Future Development Strategy progress

Future Development Strategy Monitoring report

Monitoring is an important part of carrying out the Future Development Strategy (FDS). The FDS Monitoring report builds on the previous Auckland Plan 2050 report.

Annual monitoring reports on the progress achieving quality compact growth and development.

The report tracks building consents, business floor area consents and Code Compliance Certificates for new homes across Auckland. It also monitors the status of the FDS actions.

Regional progress 

Auckland is changing and growing. The vision of a quality compact future Auckland is becoming reality.

Over the past five years, most housing development in Auckland has happened in the existing urban area (as defined in 2016), mainly on previously developed land.

In Auckland, there are more building consents for multi-unit homes (like apartments and townhouses) than for stand-alone houses. This trend is mostly seen in major growth areas and spatial priority areas within the existing urban area.

Future urban areas continue to provide land for some urban expansion. Growth in rural areas is limited and focused in existing towns and settlements.

Key findings for 2023/2024

In 2023/2024, the locations of consented and completed homes mostly follow the quality compact approach and the multi-nodal model outlined in the Future Development Strategy.

Consented dwellings

13,854 dwellings were consented in 2023/2024, a decrease of 27 per cent from 2022/2023.

• 82 per cent of these dwellings were consented in the existing urban area. 
• 13 per cent of these dwellings were consented in future urban areas. 
• 5 per cent of these dwellings were consented in rural areas. 
• Apartments, townhouses, flats and units accounted for 68 per cent of all dwellings consented in 2023/2024 compared with 72 per cent in 2022/2023. 
• Standalone houses accounted for 30 per cent of all dwellings consented in 2023/2024 compared with 23 per cent in 2022/2023. 
• 3226 dwellings, 23 per cent of the total dwellings consented, were within 1500m catchments of rapid transit stations  
• 19,229 dwellings were issued with a Code Compliance Certificate 
• 735,788 square metres of business floor space were consented in 2023/2024 compared with 493,472 square metres in 2022/2023. 
• Most business floor space consented was in areas zoned for light industry.

FDS actions

The FDS identifies 23 actions to achieve the FDS vision, outcomes and principles.

In the first year of implementing the FDS:

• six actions are ongoing 
• 10 FDS actions are underway or on track to start soon 
• seven actions are planned to start in years two or three of implementation. 

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