Hamilton plans pushback on housing density rules
You've probably read about housing reforms that will allow large townhouses and towering apartment blocks to be built across most city suburbs.
Some Hamilton City councillors are already urging pushback, including Ryan Hamilton - who noted heritage and river health could be ways to do it.
“My direction ... to [council] staff will be to take those qualifying matters to the nth degree and ... push back so that we can get good future-proof, well-considered design for the city,” Hamilton said.
Read more here.
What's your favourite piece of Waikato history?
Car parks inspired a milking shed design that took off around the world and became a piece of Waikato District history.
A hundred-year-old church and gravestones from the 1880s will also feature as the district turns the spotlight on its past for its first Heritage Day on April 20.
Got some stuff in the back of your closet to sell off?
The biggest ‘self-serve flea supermarket’ in New Zealand is about to open in Hamilton.
Re:Circle is coming to 313 Victoria Street on May 1, a space that has been vacant since the Ministry of Social Development left the building in 2019.
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