Public feedback means small dwellings can now be built without consent up to 70 square metres.
It was originally set at 60 square metres.
Housing Minister Chris Bishop says it adds extra optionality for people.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got movement on the granny flat front. So you
might remember the change was made whereby you could build
a small dwelling without consent. That was set at sixty
square meters. While public feedback is seen, it moved now
to seventy square meters. Apparently Housing Minister Chris Bishop, well,
this very good morning. No science to it. I take it,
just a vibe. It could be sixty, could be seventy,
could be eighty two and a half.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
There could be fifty, could be ninety. We've had quite
a bit of feedback from the market and from people
who submitted that sixty was a bit small worth going
up to seventy just give you a bit more full
space and more of a lounge with a couple of bedrooms.
So we've done that and it's gone down pretty well.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Okay, having said that, a lot of people have texted
already this morning, why not a dwelling plus a garage
or something similar. I built one. For example, I built
a barn with one hundred square meters. I cannot, for
the life of me see the difference between one hundred
and sixty or fifty. It's a barn, I built it. Well,
it's fine.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, well, then you're getting in literally to just building houses, right.
So they put the point of the granny flat things
to make it really simple for people just to add
a bit at sssor dwelling out the back, the little
two bedroom unit for older kids or for grandparents, you know,
for literally grannies or granddads, or you know a bit
of extra optionality at the back. So it's designed to
(01:13):
add to house and supply in a low cost way
by making sure that you get rid of the resource
consent and the building consent requirements to get things underway quickly.
Make it easy once you start building set of under
in fifty square made of places, you're looking at, you
big infrastructure costs, you're looking at basically building houses and subdividing.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Does what's your assessment of the risk factor going forward?
So I turn up at a house to buy, I
see this thing out in the back. I got no
clue whether it's any good or not, apart from Bruce
who's selling me the house is no mate, I built it,
buted what happens?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Then it has to be built by licensed building practitioner
and you have to be able to prove that. You
have to have a certificate of fitness and all of
the stuff that goes alongside that. You don't need a
resource consent, but you still do need to tell the
council that you're doing the work before you do it,
and then once it's finished, and then it goes on
to what's called a a pit not rather than a limb,
(02:02):
so the councilor knows that you've got it, and that's
that way they can potentially charge you for infrastructure that
an infrastructure charge or development contribution or whatever happens as well.
So you don't need a building consent, you don't need
a resource consent. It makes it a lot simpler and
easier to do, but there are still some requirements. You
can't just go around willing nearly allowing people just to
chuck up random buildings at the back of their property.
(02:25):
You do need to have some oversight.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You're in Singapore last week, a small island nation of
five million people. Did you get a sense of what could.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Be extraordinary place? Isn't it? It really is? And what
I like about them is the sense of ambition they've
got as a country. They don't want to be poor.
In nineteen sixty they were basically a country the size
of Lake Taupo, and they were basically shacks and hovels
and they decided that they wanted to be wealthy and
they went for it. That is the place New Zealand
(02:53):
could be if we put our minds to it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Good stuff. You should all buys tickets actually to Singapore
so we can go and if you haven't been and
experience it and you come back, you'll be a changed person.
Chris Bishop, the Housing Minister.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
News Talks at B from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
We got movement on the granny flat front. So you
might remember the change was made whereby you could build
a small dwelling without consent. That was set at sixty
square meters. While public feedback is seen, it moved now
to seventy square meters. Apparently Housing Minister Chris Bishop, well,
this very good morning. No science to it. I take it,
just a vibe. It could be sixty, could be seventy,
could be eighty two and a half.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
There could be fifty, could be ninety. We've had quite
a bit of feedback from the market and from people
who submitted that sixty was a bit small worth going
up to seventy just give you a bit more full
space and more of a lounge with a couple of bedrooms.
So we've done that and it's gone down pretty well.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Okay, having said that, a lot of people have texted
already this morning, why not a dwelling plus a garage
or something similar. I built one. For example, I built
a barn with one hundred square meters. I cannot, for
the life of me see the difference between one hundred
and sixty or fifty. It's a barn, I built it. Well,
it's fine.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, well, then you're getting in literally to just building houses, right.
So they put the point of the granny flat things
to make it really simple for people just to add
a bit at sssor dwelling out the back, the little
two bedroom unit for older kids or for grandparents, you know,
for literally grannies or granddads, or you know a bit
of extra optionality at the back. So it's designed to
(01:13):
add to house and supply in a low cost way
by making sure that you get rid of the resource
consent and the building consent requirements to get things underway quickly.
Make it easy once you start building set of under
in fifty square made of places, you're looking at, you
big infrastructure costs, you're looking at basically building houses and subdividing.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Does what's your assessment of the risk factor going forward?
So I turn up at a house to buy, I
see this thing out in the back. I got no
clue whether it's any good or not, apart from Bruce
who's selling me the house is no mate, I built it,
buted what happens?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Then it has to be built by licensed building practitioner
and you have to be able to prove that. You
have to have a certificate of fitness and all of
the stuff that goes alongside that. You don't need a
resource consent, but you still do need to tell the
council that you're doing the work before you do it,
and then once it's finished, and then it goes on
to what's called a a pit not rather than a limb,
(02:02):
so the councilor knows that you've got it, and that's
that way they can potentially charge you for infrastructure that
an infrastructure charge or development contribution or whatever happens as well.
So you don't need a building consent, you don't need
a resource consent. It makes it a lot simpler and
easier to do, but there are still some requirements. You
can't just go around willing nearly allowing people just to
chuck up random buildings at the back of their property.
(02:25):
You do need to have some oversight.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You're in Singapore last week, a small island nation of
five million people. Did you get a sense of what could.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Be extraordinary place? Isn't it? It really is? And what
I like about them is the sense of ambition they've
got as a country. They don't want to be poor.
In nineteen sixty they were basically a country the size
of Lake Taupo, and they were basically shacks and hovels
and they decided that they wanted to be wealthy and
they went for it. That is the place New Zealand
(02:53):
could be if we put our minds to it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Good stuff. You should all buys tickets actually to Singapore
so we can go and if you haven't been and
experience it and you come back, you'll be a changed person.
Chris Bishop, the Housing Minister.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
News Talks at B from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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