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This report presents some results from the 2015 BRANZ House Condition Survey. The analysis focuses on comparing house condition between the two tenures (owner-occupied and rented). The BRANZ House Condition Survey (HCS) provides a snapshot of the state of New Zealand housing at a point in time.

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This report sets out the findings of urban design research into an economic evaluation tool developed by Transport for London, known as the Valuing Urban Realm Toolkit 2016 (VURT). The tool was developed to ascribe a monetary value to the investment cities make in the urban realm. The research documented in this report, which took the form of three case studies for different streetscape locations and future development scenarios within Auckland’s city centre, was carried out by Boffa Miskell urban designers in the first quarter of 2017.

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Economic Insights Series 1. Auckland’s advanced industries are a diverse group of industries which play an increasingly important role in Auckland’s economic performance. The first report in the series will summarise the role and importance of these industries and detail opportunities for ATEED, our partners and other key stakeholders to support their growth.

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Housing is critical to social and health outcomes of all Aucklanders, and plays an important role in facilitating the efficient operation of the labour market. The Auckland Mayoral Housing Taskforce report states that ‘improving housing affordability and choice would make Auckland more attractive to the workers and businesses needed to make New Zealand's biggest city more productive, vibrant and wealthier in the long run’ (Auckland Mayoral Housing Taskforce, 2017). This reinforces the Mayor’s vision for Auckland ‘to be a world-class city.

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Auckland’s sustained population growth and its projected future growth, puts pressure on the natural environment. The concentration of people living in one particular area requires resources – land, water, energy, infrastructure and material flows. Economic efficiencies can be made through concentrating large numbers of people who live and work in urban areas, but resource flows also create waste streams and require the conversion of natural or rural land to built form.

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Increased density in already urbanised areas of Auckland will be required to reach the goals of a compact city set out in The Auckland Plan, and will require a significant level of redevelopment and intensification. However, the presence of multi-owned properties across the city presents a barrier to redevelopment. In this regard, cross lease title and unit title properties are the most prevalent type of multi-owned property in Auckland, with these two title types accounting for 31 per cent of all titles in Auckland.

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Real time images from Auckland Council's air quality monitoring camera on the roof top of the Spencer on Byron Hotel, Byron Street, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand.  .

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After the 2016 Auckland Council elections, a survey was conducted to understand candidates’ awareness of the ‘Love your Auckland – Stand for council’ campaign, their experiences of the nomination process, their awareness and usage of the resources available to them, and to identify areas for future service improvement. A total of 38 per cent of candidates (164 out of 427) responded to the survey. This document is a summary of the main report (Auckland Council technical report TR2017/004) and presents a snapshot of the results of the survey.

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After the 2016 Auckland Council elections, a survey was conducted to understand candidates’ awareness of the ‘Love your Auckland – Stand for council’ campaign, their experiences of the nomination process, their awareness and usage of the resources available to them, and to identify areas for future service improvement. A total of 38 per cent of candidates (164 out of 427) responded to the survey. This report presents the results of the survey.

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The significant threat of increased terrestrial sediment runoff into estuaries and coastal zones as a result of land use changes was recognised by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and the Auckland Regional Council (ARC) in the 1990s. Starting with Okura in 2000, the ARC began ecological monitoring in order to better assess the impacts of sediment loads on the health of valued estuarine resources. The abundances of nine macrofauna taxa, macrofaunal community characteristics and bed sediment characteristics are now monitored at four sites in each of seven east coast estuaries (Puhoi, Waiwera, Orewa, Mangemangeroa, Turanga, Waikopua and Whangateau), with 10 sites sampled in Okura due to the developments proposed within its catchment and immediate shoreline.

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A report on data collected from annual sampling of shallow subtidal reef communities in Auckland at Meola Reef, Campbells Bay, Torbay, Long Bay, Manly, Stanmore Bay and Waiwera. Auckland Council technical report, TR2017/002.  .

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News and commentary from Auckland Council's Chief Economist's office.