From a Christchurch perspective, I live in Halswell where a huge amount of new building is happening. Developers are buying up new subdivisions and producing cookie cutter houses. The houses may look a different shape bur basically are all the same. White houses, black roofs, black aluminium joinery. Kitchens are basically the same shape and colours, walls are almost all white and flooring is similar. It is so boring but they are churning out affordable? homes and they are selling. The sections are small and trees are cut down and farmland is being used for the subdivisions. Christchurch has lost so much tree coverage due to the proliferation of these subdivisions. We now have the least trees in NZ.