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- Recent coverage has focused on how land use zoning may affect property prices. - Often, these analyses don’t consider a number of factors, meaning they likely overestimate possible costs of regulation in Auckland. - The progressive Unitary Plan, the difference between land supply and housing supply, and the costs of turning farm land into developed land are three factors that are often neglected.

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It is now over 10 years since the Environmental Response Criteria were formulated for the Auckland Regional Plan: Coastal, and these have had very mixed usage. Over the intervening period, there have been many advances in the underlying science, the application of guidelines, as well as in guidelines themselves. Auckland Council continues to evaluate the full range of triggers, criteria, standards, targets, objectives (all given the generic name “guideline”) that are available, and that are sufficiently robust and appropriate to the local environment, so that they could be incorporated into plan considerations as needed.

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This report draws on results from the 2013 Census to provide a profile of Pacific people aged 15 years and over in Auckland who stated they were either self-employed and not employing others (‘self-employed’), or were an employer of other persons in their own business (‘employers’). This analysis will help inform broader Auckland Council research on Pacific entrepreneurship which aims to provide insights into the characteristics of Pacific businesses including the issues, practices and outcomes in order to enhance the effectiveness of initiatives aimed at promoting Pacific businesses in Auckland. Auckland Council technical report, TR2017/009.

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The intention of this report is to trace the multiple dimensions of social and economic well-being among older Aucklanders. It represents an important step in Auckland Council’s response to the implications of population ageing, now and into the future. In 2013, a quarter of all older people in New Zealand (defined here as those aged 65 and over) lived in Auckland, and this group made up just over one in ten Aucklanders.

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From the Introduction: This is the 10th State of the Nation report from The Salvation Army’s Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit. The report is produced each year to provide a marker of how New Zealand is doing as a nation. It is intended to stand alongside other oft-referenced indicators that serve to identify how our nation is doing economically.

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Erratum for Auckland region climate change projections and impacts, Auckland Council technical report TR2017/030  NIWA Climate Projections Erratum 14 December 2017 Please note the strong signal for temperature-related climate fields in the northwest of the region is due to a grid cell error in the regional downscaling bias correction process. This error was inherited from the NIWA national-scale modelling results that the report was built on. We are working to rectify this issue as soon as possible.

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Growth pressures and the changing nature of New Zealand’s urban areas have led to the gazetting of the National Policy Statement on Urban Development Capacity 2016 (NPS-UDC 2016). The NPS-UDC is designed to provide direction to local councils to help them make informed decisions about planning in urban environments, ensuring that they “enable urban environments to grow and change in response to the changing needs of the communities, and future generations; and provide enough space for their populations to happily live and work.

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Seabirds are the world’s most threatened group of birds, primarily a result of deadly encounters ‘at sea’ with fisheries and ‘on land’ with invasive pest mammals. Additionally, the struggles to find available, suitable habitats compound the threat faced by seabirds. The Auckland region is renowned as a seabird hotspot, with 27 breeding species in the greater Hauraki Gulf in particular.

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December 2017 edition of the Auckland Council Research and Evaluation Unit's newsletter. Articles: Auckland's creative businesses Auckland's greenhouse gas inventory Climate projections for the Auckland region Counting invertebrates The Mahurangi Harbour automated water quality monitoring buoy Measuring Auckland's carbon emissions  .

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August 2017 edition of RIMU's quarterly newsletter.

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April/May 2017 edition of RIMU's quarterly newsletter.

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Measuring pedestrian congestion in the Auckland city centre – technical report The purpose of this report is to quantify pedestrian delay at signalised intersections in the Auckland city centre, which are a significant contributor to delays and inconvenience experienced by people walking in the city centre. Our methodology is based upon the NZ Transport Agency’s (2016) Economic Evaluation Manual, which provides guidance on valuing travel time delays incurred by transport users, regardless of mode of travel. The results in this report can be compared with estimates of the cost of congestion for other road users (ie people in cars or buses).