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Making it easier to build a granny flat makes sense – but it’s no solution to a housing crisis

Rule changes to allow larger granny flats follow a well-established pattern in New Zealand: modest reforms to address big and complicated problems.

Timothy Welch

Documents show the government is going against expert advice and strong economic evidence by insisting higher speed limits will improve productivity.

New Zealand’s infrastructure woes are a constant political pain point. From ageing water systems to congested roads and assets increasingly...

As the government’s plan to increase speed limits begins to roll out, a group of local and international road safety and health experts has warned...

The government’s new National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) could easily have been renamed the “highway funding project”, given its intense...