Ryan Bridge: Building new houses on flood-prone land - here we go again

Here we go again, everybody. They’re planning to build yet more houses on land that we know is partial to flooding.

This time, it's the Coalition Government, with three housing projects on its fast-track list in Auckland and Canterbury.

In 2022 it was Labour, they had 700 homes on their fast-track list that were prone to flooding.

You might think, well, if you want to go and build your house on flood-prone land after Cyclone Gabrielle, et cetera, that's your issue. You pay up.

But here's the problem with that: we have no hard and fast rule about what rate payers and or taxpayers might have to…

The skinny

The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.