Outrageous Fortune iconic TV house to be bulldozed for seven townhouses at $700k each
13 Feb, 2021 05:55 AM
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The 1960s-era property in the Auckland suburb of Te Atatū sits on a 931sq m site and is zoned for intensification under Auckland s unitary plan. Photo / Hayden Woodward
The 1960s-era property in the Auckland suburb of Te Atatū sits on a 931sq m site and is zoned for intensification under Auckland s unitary plan. Photo / Hayden Woodward
NZ Herald
Seven townhouses costing almost $700,000 each will soon be built on the block where an icon of Kiwi TV once loomed.
The well known two-storey house, where crime drama Outrageous Fortune and its prequel Westside have been set since 2005, is about to be bulldozed.
Woman desperate for housing banned from showering more than once every three days
13 Feb, 2021 08:15 PM
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An Auckland woman has recounted a series of housing horrors - including being only allowed to shower once every three days. Photos / Getty Images, Mark Mitchell
An Auckland woman has recounted a series of housing horrors - including being only allowed to shower once every three days. Photos / Getty Images, Mark Mitchell
A woman says she was only allowed to shower once every three days and subjected to other draconian rules during a series of Auckland housing horrors.
Her plight was partly due to what a community leader described as unethical subletting and greedy landlords - but also an outcome of the broader housing crisis.
Long-vacant Napier school site to be redeveloped for family homes
9 Feb, 2021 02:29 AM
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Hawkes Bay Today
More than 2ha of prime Napier hills real estate vacant for 18 years and once targeted for a 61-unit residential development is now set to become the site of two family homes. The site is the 2.2ha 46-50 Napier Tce former home of Hukarere Girls College, which has expansive views over the city of Napier and Marine Pde towards Cape Kidnappers.
Vacated by the school in 2003 amid a move to a property once a Department of Social Welfare boys home near Eskdale, the historic buildings were demolished and the site bought by investors planning the residential development, which was to have been known as Hukarere Heights.