Thursday, 18 February 2021, 11:36 am
Generating more housing to meet the escalating need at
the same time as protecting the district’s productive
growing land is a key consideration for Hastings District
Council.
To help achieve this, residential
intensification (or fitting more houses into existing
neighbourhoods) is required, and it’s a core goal of the
Heretaunga Plains Urban Development Strategy 2017 and
Hastings District Council’s
Medium Density
Strategy.
To ensure a high level of quality,
best-practice design is encouraged and to assist in this the
council has produced the Hastings Residential
Intensification Design Guide, which provides property
developers, builders, architects and others with ideas and