Green said one of the biggest barriers to catching up to demand was how long it took to get areas zoned or rezoned for residential use.
“I’ve got a [24 hectare] bit of land around Stoney Creek and Kelvin Grove I've been trying to get sorted for years – that’s 220 sections that could get going right away, the second the city council rezoned it.”
The Government recently announced it was scrapping the Resource Management Act, and will be making reforms over the next two years to speed up access to land for housing.
“But we need new sections now, not in three or four years. If we don’t get them soon, then the city is going to stop growing”