Urban Sprawl
Sydney's western suburbs 'Australian nightmare'
A Sydney academic is warning that too much development is happening in parts of the city which are already becoming unbearably hot. Poor design, uninsulated housing and a lack of consideration for the… Audio
When national security trumps urban sprawl
The Defence Minister has intervened in a case with a property developer to allow the Whenuapai Air Base to continue engine testing, in spite of it exceeding noise limits. How did it come to this? Audio
'We're preferring potatoes' to urban sprawl - David Parker
Pitting potatoes against property - that's how the government's proposal to protect highly productive farm land from being subdivided or used for urban expansion has been described.
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Auckland Council must open up land - English
The Finance Minister has put Auckland Council on notice that the government will step in if it doesn't open up more land for development.
Setback to Auckland Council plans to curb urban sprawl
There is an early setback to the Auckland Council's ambition to curb urban sprawl, with only limited backing from an independent panel considering the city's development blueprint. Audio