Council rejigs spending plan by $1.4b, adjusts DC rates
Developer pushback has seen Auckland Council sharpen its pencil across its investment programme, but they have 'no idea how things work in the real world', developers say.
Widening existing pavements, rather than replacing and adding new lanes, as with this Glen Innes road, could save $242m.
Inflated cost estimates and over-engineered projects across Auckland’s ‘investment priority’ areas (IPA) added at least $1.4 billion to the council’s 30-year scope of investment.
Following consultation – which highlighted overestimates of safety and footpath costs and specific issues with
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