Housing New Zealand’s intention to begin a major redevelopment in Auckland’s Glen Innes next year has been welcomed as a positive step towards the transformation of Tamaki.

Interim Tamaki Transformation Programme Board (ITTB) chair Lee Mathias said the Housing New Zealand project was part of a wider major overhaul of state housing properties in urban Auckland and was expected to make a positive contribution to Tamaki’s future growth.

“The Tāmaki Transformation Programme is about improving the housing, parks, education and community facilities, and job opportunities for people who live here now, and those who will live here in the future.

“The proposed Glen Innes redevelopment project is expected to contribute to and build on the Tāmaki Transformation Programme’s vision of better results and better outcomes for all of Tāmaki, and the wider Auckland region.”

The project proposes the redevelopment of 156 properties in northern Glen Innes to create at least 260 new homes, including 78 that Housing New Zealand will own, at least 39 owned by other social or community housing providers, and the remainder for private sale. It also proposes modernising another 40 state houses in the project area.

The Tāmaki Transformation Programme is the largest urban renewal programme in New Zealand and was established by Government, Auckland Council and the Community to improve the social, educational, spatial and economic outcomes in Tāmaki.