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David Witburn: Whitburn Group Project Development on whether the Government's granny flat rule changes will lead to more homes being built · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Remember the old granny flats and the rule change that
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  Speaker 2: lets you put one on your property without having to
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  Speaker 2: get consent, Well, not so easy. You still need permission apparently,
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  Speaker 2: which means that the promise of thirteen thousand more flats
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  Speaker 2: is probably slightly overinflated. Managing director of witburn Group, David
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  Speaker 2: Whitburner is with us. Now, Hi, David, David, are you there? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: there you are? Okay, If not thirteen thousand, how many?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's far more likely to see a fig
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  Speaker 3: more like three thousand or so extra dwellings. The reality
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  Speaker 3: is it's a niche accommodation type of granny flat. It's
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  Speaker 3: not everyone's dream to live in a granny flat. Can
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  Speaker 3: be very useful for extended far no living, can be
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  Speaker 3: useful for an investment purpose to do it as well,
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  Speaker 3: but it's often very poor density. For the Tier one city,
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  Speaker 3: they're limited to only one story seventy square meters in size,
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  Speaker 3: so it's a little bit of a niche activity type.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what kind of permission do you still need to get?
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  Speaker 3: You still need to get a PYM or a project
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  Speaker 3: information memorandum. This gives the councils of territorial authorities the
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  Speaker 3: ability to screen out certain things like building too close
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  Speaker 3: to the neighbors and floodplains and culturally sensitive areas significant
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  Speaker 3: ecological areas. So there are quite a few constraints that
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  Speaker 3: will still mean that you need to get things like
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  Speaker 3: surveys and architects involved to make sure that you're not
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  Speaker 3: breaching any rules with hazards, and it can actually demonstrate
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  Speaker 3: to council you're treading storm and waste water properly and
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  Speaker 3: you've got the appropriate vehicle access in parking, depending on
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  Speaker 3: the council that you're in.
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  Speaker 2: In all so, would you have to go through the
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  Speaker 2: rigmarole of getting an architect in all cases or just
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  Speaker 2: in the worst cases.
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  Speaker 3: In most cases you'll still need it only because you'll
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  Speaker 3: need to know what to order in terms of that. Howadays,
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  Speaker 3: the software is designed that it's much easier with the
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  Speaker 3: computer aided design text you get your architect to do it.
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  Speaker 3: There should be some savings and some streamlinings from it,
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  Speaker 3: but not in all cases. But in most cases it's
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  Speaker 3: proven to get an architect.
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  Speaker 2: And how much of pain and about it is a
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  Speaker 2: PEM as opposed to go through for a resource consent.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just say a pem's much easier than getting a
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  Speaker 3: resource consent, but it still needs detailed information. This is
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  Speaker 3: where some of the councils have ever already been on
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  Speaker 3: record for being a little bit worried about it. They're
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  Speaker 3: worried about now They're planning teams are going to have
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  Speaker 3: to be the gatekeeper and block out numerous of these
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  Speaker 3: granny flats. Whereas they think the resource concent process and
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  Speaker 3: building consent processes are better, the PEM still needs detailed
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  Speaker 3: information on it, So you still need to provide a
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  Speaker 3: site plan, a floorplaning scale drawings to make sure that
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  Speaker 3: you can demonstrate that you're hitting the key planting controls.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Hey David, thanks for that. Appreciated. That's David Whitburn,
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  Speaker 2: the managing director of the Whitburn Group Project Development.
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