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Felicity Foy: Far North District Councillor on changes to insulation standards · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: I thought that changes to insulation rules announced yesterday could
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  Speaker 1: save up to fifteen thousand dollars per new build. Minister
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  Speaker 1: for Building Chris Pinks scrapping the one size fits all
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  Speaker 1: approach to homebuilding to give developers and homeowners more flexibility,
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  Speaker 1: and looking at making the Far North a separate climate zone.
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  Speaker 1: Felicity Fox is final district councilor with me this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Hey Felicity, Oh hi, Felicity foroy here, oh.
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  Speaker 1: Fory forgive me. Nice to have you on the program. Felicity,
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  Speaker 1: tell me tell me what you guys are wanting this
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  Speaker 1: climate zone for. What would that mean?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yes, we're in the finals here, so we're very subtropical.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we've be to the final for Ryan,
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  Speaker 2: but we're twenty beaches in twenty minutes and that will
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  Speaker 2: mean for us that we can bring down the very
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  Speaker 2: extensive cost to build.
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  Speaker 1: What's in the final What is the cost in the
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  Speaker 1: Far North because nationally, you know, they sort of say
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  Speaker 1: anywhere between three and a half four thousand.
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  Speaker 2: Green meeting one thousand dollars per square meter. For us,
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  Speaker 2: it's the transport. So we're four and a half hours
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  Speaker 2: north of Auckland and you might also have realized that
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  Speaker 2: we've had our State highway as well among a mocker
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  Speaker 2: clothes for a number of years. So we've had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of barriers that we've faced with our distance from
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  Speaker 2: metropolitan centers, but also the huge cost to get it here,
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  Speaker 2: and that just means we have to pick up that
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  Speaker 2: cost when we're building as well.
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  Speaker 1: How much. I mean, is there a problem right now
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  Speaker 1: where people are shoving insulation and the homes that just
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  Speaker 1: don't need it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, definitely. The current existing standard that has been
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  Speaker 2: bored in and the Minister has announced that he's changing
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  Speaker 2: to be more sensible and reasonable is totally over the top.
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  Speaker 2: When you look particularly at the glazing cost. The difference
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  Speaker 2: between double glazing and low eglass is significant. As the
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  Speaker 2: Minister has announced, fifteen thousand dollars is not uncommon.
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  Speaker 1: Just for the glazing.
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  Speaker 2: So you think and that's the glazing alone, and I
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  Speaker 2: know firsthand examples of that also from yesterday speaking to
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  Speaker 2: home loan advisors finance advisors. The number of people that
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  Speaker 2: are actually building has dropped significantly and we've seen that
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  Speaker 2: in our council with our building consents.
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  Speaker 1: And no doubt that's partly because the cost, presumably, So
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  Speaker 1: did you.
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  Speaker 2: Believe significantly because of the cost. Definitely.
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  Speaker 1: And so when they made the change initially the previous
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  Speaker 1: government to the insulation rules, did you guys say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we don't need this because it's warmer up here.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely? Yes, Oh yeah, Well you might have seen in
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  Speaker 2: immediate the time there were significant advocates for that, and
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  Speaker 2: that was the insulation industry and the glazing industry because
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  Speaker 2: obviously it impacts them in a positive way. But for
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  Speaker 2: the every day mum and dad just trying to get
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  Speaker 2: into her house, that's a significant barrier. Particularly up here
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  Speaker 2: where we're subtropical. We're much warmer. We call it the
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  Speaker 2: tropics of Moody Fenowa and north here of Mangamoca. I
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  Speaker 2: live here at nine a mile beach. We are so
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  Speaker 2: warm and the cost of the lowy glass is not needed.
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  Speaker 1: Well listenally appreciate your time this morning for Licity Foy,
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  Speaker 1: who is the final district councilor for more from early
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