Panel scuttles Queenstown’s affordable housing 5% levy
Independent panel kicks back a contentious council proposal on ‘inclusionary housing’ which would have seen residential developers contribute into a community housing pool.
Millbrook Resort, like most landowners, were against the plan.
Queenstown Lakes District Council will likely go back to the drawing board after an independent panel suggested more work was needed on its plan to clip a 5% tax on developers to help fund affordable housing.
The council proposals – a variation to the district plan which would have required
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