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One of Auckland s big-four, urban fringe residential developments needs new thinking to solve the provision of its infrastructure. Eleanor Black reports
Thirty-six kilometres south of Auckland’s CBD lies a golden opportunity. On the skirt fringe of the country’s largest population centre, where house prices have spiralled beyond reason and rising numbers of people go without homes, 5000 hectares of greenfields have been earmarked for future development.
Here, at the base of the Bombay Hills, the natural southern border for Auckland, developers are poised to build houses and apartments, commercial centres, schools and health facilities to serve a community the size of two Rotoruas, or 150,000 people.
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