Urban Growth Agenda
The Urban Growth Agenda (UGA) aims to remove barriers to the supply of land and infrastructure and make room for cities to grow up and out.
Objectives of the UGA
The main objective of the UGA is to improve housing affordability, underpinned by affordable urban land. This objective is supported by wider objectives to:
- improve choices about the location and type of housing
- improve access to employment, education and services
- assist emission reductions and build climate resilience
- enable quality-built environments, while avoiding unnecessary sprawl.
Focus areas
The UGA has five interconnected focus areas that cover aspects of urban and infrastructure planning and provision:
- infrastructure funding and financing — enabling a more responsive supply of infrastructure and appropriate cost allocation
- urban planning — to allow for cities to make room for growth, support quality-built environments and enable strategic integrated planning
- spatial planning (initially focused on Auckland and the Auckland-Hamilton corridor) — to build a stronger partnership with local government as a means of developing integrated spatial planning
- transport pricing — to ensure the price of transport infrastructure promotes efficient use of the network
- legislative reform — to ensure that regulatory, institutional and funding settings are collectively supporting UGA objectives.
Urban growth partnerships
The UGA is delivered through partnerships between the Crown, local government, iwi and local communities. Find out more about Urban growth partnerships.
Costs and benefits of urban growth
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The costs and benefits of urban
This MRCagney report informs work on understanding and measuring the wider costs and benefits of urban development. It identifies and categorises the range of these costs and benefits, highlighting which effects we understand well and which we do not.
March 29, 2021
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The wider costs and benefits of urban growth – methodology
Building upon the MRCagney report, HUD commissioned PwC to develop a multi-criteria analysis methodology to enable Councils to measure the wider costs and benefits of urban growth and to assess the strategic effects of this growth.
March 19, 2021
Pdf, 4.8 MB
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The wider costs and benefits of urban growth – A simple
A 2-page guide to the wider costs and benefits of urban growth methodology report. This guide provides the “who, what, when, where and how” of the methodology for those seeking to understand if it could be usefully applied in their district.
March 19, 2021
Pdf, 539 KB
Published: June 3, 2021