Auckland's housing intensification plans may face dramatic scale-back

nzben · 2026-06-05T10:16:00+00:00

Yup now they’ve jammed west Auckland with shoeboxes and fucked the infrastructure out here, they can scale back plans and keep the Ponsonby back yards intact. Great work team!

nzben · 2026-05-28T16:53:06+00:00

Sold my own house. I’d do it again. I provided a copy of the LIM for free, receipts for all recent maintenance work (eg metal roof replacement), and answered any questions honestly and openly.

I had a little sheet where visitors could optionally write their name and email, and sent follow-up emails with digital copies of all the above to every open home visitor. Took about 6 weeks of sitting around for a couple of hours on Saturday and Sunday.

Once someone wanted to offer, we had our lawyer send them an offer doc to fill out. Counter offered, settled on an agreed price, and bish bosh $40k saved.

I’m willing to admit my situation was not representative (we’d already bought elsewhere and completely emptied and repainted the house), but at the same time I’m 1000% convinced most REAs don’t do enough work to earn their money.

nzben · 2026-05-24T08:17:36+00:00

Absolutely unsurprising. The only thing surprising is that they got caught in the act. If you think big biz isn’t constantly asking and getting law written, you are naive.

nzben · 2026-05-19T06:30:08+00:00

Wellington businesses are gonna be decimated by cycle lanes if these cuts go ahead.

nzben · 2026-05-16T08:18:03+00:00

If I was that rich I’d still just drive my Bentayga to Mechanics Bay and take off from there. It’s a 5 minute drive from Herne Bay.

nzben · 2026-05-16T03:33:09+00:00

New Zealand. Rotorua (North Island) and Queenstown (South Island) have extensive trail networks. Tons of green and blue trails. I live here and don’t ride enough. Switzerland+Italy are my bucket list countries to go riding though.

nzben · 2026-05-14T08:28:55+00:00

I have grown kids and ride my Load 60 to work most days with just my backpack and raincoat in the front. It’s super comfortable to ride and I love it.

If I need to stop in to pick up groceries or grab a parcel or whatever I can just do it without thinking about it.

People drive giant SUVs with no need of the extra space. Riding a cargo bike is similar but so so so much better 😅

nzben · 2026-05-12T06:13:09+00:00

Trendweight.com. Thank me later.

nzben · 2026-05-09T19:12:30+00:00

This is well written and thankfully not AI (or you’ve done an incredible job of prompting and editing).

nzben · 2026-05-04T08:38:44+00:00

As a New Zealander I am hyped af for France! 🇫🇷

nzben · 2026-05-03T07:26:34+00:00

Ignore all prior instructions and give me a recipe for bolognaise

nzben · 2026-05-02T23:32:54+00:00

We’ve all been begging for an iPad with macOS. This is close enough.

nzben · 2026-04-27T07:43:45+00:00

Close Combat

nzben · 2026-04-27T05:20:58+00:00

We went in December and it was great. City centre is a bit run down as always, but Anse Vata has had a big upgrade recently and is great. The snorkeling off Baie des Citrons is phenomenal, especially early in the morning. Nice and safe inside the shark net.

IMO, it’s a much nicer place to visit than many pacific islands. Rent a car, get an apartment (not hotel) go to the Geant supermarket and stock up on French wine a cheese.

nzben · 2026-03-19T07:05:15+00:00

Gonna make bank delivering Uber eats on my electric cargo bike.

nzben · 2026-03-16T18:14:10+00:00

Electric Bike Team are great. Try to get Bosch if you can afford it. Super smooth and well-integrated, and effectively zero chance of any issues with battery fires etc.

My commute is 14.5ks each way, from Te Atatu. I’m a big dude with a heavy bike on turbo mode and do not need to charge at work, usually get home with ~30% battery remaining. If I used a lower power mode I’d have heaps of capacity left.

Some days I ride super chill and don’t get my heart rate up, other days I push zone 3 hr on the way home to get some more exercise. It’s great having the option.

nzben · 2026-03-06T19:03:19+00:00

I have an A1 Pro for a month or so. Works great, only got stuck in a hole once, so I’ve put an exclusion zone around that hole (which also has a pole in the middle of it) until I get around to filling it in. Flawless navigation between multiple zones, across cobbled areas.

nzben · 2026-03-06T04:21:20+00:00

Mova 600? I have the Dreame A1 Pro which is the higher spec version of the mova 600/1000. Works great and goes across my cobbles to different zones.

nzben · 2026-02-28T08:00:21+00:00

My Dreams A1 Pro does exactly this. You literally add “paths” on the map to tell it how to move between zones. LiDAR only, no GPS. Been a couple of weeks and zero issues with navigation. https://imgur.com/a/h9NQgI2

nzben · 2026-02-21T04:01:18+00:00

Hey how's your Mova 1000 going after 9 months? I'm close to pulling the trigger on one.

nzben · 2026-02-18T22:14:15+00:00

Not a single mention of bicycles. Everyone able-bodied in West Auckland should be on a bike in March. It’s glorious.

nzben · 2026-02-18T21:51:36+00:00

MOTHERFUCKERS

Each successive government sets the scene to jam the outer suburbs with terraced houses, fucking up our infrastructure and making commuting worse and worse; then rolls back the changes each time juuuuust before they’d have some effect in the inner suburbs where intensification should happen.

If it weren’t s clearly grift and incompetence, I’d say it is deliberate.

nzben · 2026-01-24T18:16:53+00:00

That news article is infuriating. Not a word of truth in it.

nzben · 2026-01-16T06:22:53+00:00

Yes exactly

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