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Types of houses and neighbourhoods
We're proposing changes to ensure the right levels of intensification in the right areas.
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Moving around our city
We’re proposing some changes to provide more transport choice to support higher density housing, including walking…
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Our green policies
Hamilton is a beautiful city, with a lush green canopy, extensive gully network and Waikato River at its heart.
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How it's paid for
A financial contribution is a method included in our District Plan to help fund the things that off-set some of the…
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Protecting our heritage and natural environment
There are some exceptions to the Government’s rules called ‘qualifying matters’. These allow us to manage…
Since 2020, Central Government has reset the rules for how big cities can grow and introduced two pieces of legislation that tells councils how they must make that happen. These are the National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS-UD) and Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021.
Amongst other things, the new rules requires cities like Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Tauranga and Hamilton to grow up, not just out.
View the proposed plan changes on our e-plan
Read more about the NPS-UD here.
Read more about the Amendment bill here.
The changes set out by Government are not optional
We must change our plan to reflect the new rules. But we’re aiming to do this in a way that respects our environment and the features of our city that are important to us.
August 2022
Public notification (and your chance to tell us what you think).
November 2022
Further submissions
February 2023
Joint Opening Hearing
September 2024
Hearing 2 for PC12 is currently scheduled to commence on 4 September 2024 (See Direction #23).
December 2024
Notification of the decision.
Early 2025
Plan change operative and the new rules come into effect.
IHP recommendation
Note: Due to PC12, updates to the numbering and cross-referencing of provisions within the affected chapters may have been omitted. A final check and update of any outstanding numbering and cross-referencing errors will be conducted before the ePlan is updated.
Appendix 6 — PC12—Recommended provisions
Clean change version
Appendices
Chapters
Tracked change version
Appendices
Chapters
Proposed changes
Plan change documentation
Section-42
Section-32
Chapters
Appendices
Commissioner Directions
Directions
Legal-Memos
Minutes
Other-documents
Responses
Joint Witness Statements
Legal Submissions
Legal
Scope
Strategic
Hearing session 1
Proponent evidence
Hearing-evidence
Proponent-Rebuttal-Evidence
Submitter Evidence
Fonterra
Individual-Submissions
Kainga-Ora
Scope-issues
Strategic Hearings
Day-01
Day-02
Day-03
Day-04
Hearing Session 2
Hearing Schedule
Hearing-Schedule
Hearing Sessions
Day-01
Day-02
Day-03
Day-04
Day-05
Day-06
Day-07
Day-08
Legal Submissions
Legal-Submissions-
Proponent evidence
1-Proponent-Evidence
2-Appendix-A-to-all-Proponent-Evidence
3-Supporting-Documentation
4-Supplementary-Evidence
Proponent Rebuttal Evidence
1-Proponent-Rebuttal
2-Appendix-A-to-Proponent-Rebuttal
Submitter Rebuttal Evidence
Submitter Evidence
Adare
Fonterra
Foodstuffs
Individual-Submissions
Kainga-Ora
KiwiRail
Te-Awa-Lakes
WEL
Submissions on Plan Change 12
01-Submissions
02-Further-submissions
Planning provisions – 27 May 2024
1-Chapters
2-Appendices
3-Section-32a-Report
4-Legal-Memo
Take A Look
Plan Change 12 – Enabling Housing Supply – Joint Hearing (15 February 2023)
Plan Change 12 – Enabling Housing Supply – Joint Hearing (16 February 2023)
Plan Change 12 – Enabling Housing Supply – Joint Hearing (17 February 2023)
Other related plan changes
Waipā District Council: PC26 Residential Intensification
Waikato District Council: Variation 3 Enabling Housing Supply
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Last updated 22 August 2023