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What A Minor Dwelling Is and Where You Can Build One In Auckland

Follow the link to check out when we have a Minor Dwelling Challenge coming up next - www.MinorDwellingChallenge.co.nz What is a Minor Dwelling? So, a Minor Dwelling is actually a technical term for a secondary dwelling. And according to the Auckland Unitary Plan, there are three zonings, three residential zonings where a Minor Dwelling, the technical term "Minor Dwelling" applies. And those three zonings are: Residential Large Lot; they're Rural zones; or the Single House zone. So those are the three zones where a Minor Dwelling applies, and a Minor Dwelling, being a secondary dwelling, has a maximum of 65 square metres. Now of those three zones, two of them, the Rural zones or the Residential Large Lot zone, do require a resource consent for the addition of a Minor Dwelling on those sites. However, a Single House zone does not require a resource consent as long as it meets all the standards laid out In the Auckland Unitary Plan, you can put a Minor Dwelling, maximum of 65 square metres on a single house zone. Now the other zones in the Auckland Unitary Plan, the other residential zones are: Residential Mixed Housing Suburban; Residential Mixed Housing Urban; and Terraced Housing and Apartments Building zone. And those three zones don't have the regulations for a Minor Dwelling. Those three zones are actually allowed up to... well, sorry, the Residential Mixed Housing Suburban and Residential Mixed Housing Urban are allowed up to three dwellings with no maximum size as long as they meet all the standards on the zones. So, it means you're not restricted to 65 square metres. You can have 100... 200 square metres if you like, and up to three dwellings before you have to apply for a resource consent. So, to answer the question, what is a Minor Dwelling? Technically, it is a secondary dwelling on one of those three Auckland zones, which has a maximum size of 65 square metres. However, it's a term that's obvious... obviously banded around a lot and it's also used for a Granny Flat. And so, a lot of people use it, even if your zone is a Residential Mixed Housing Suburban or Residential Mixed Housing Urban or Terraced Housing and Apartments. People still use that term, although it's not technically accurate in those zones, it's just referred to as an additional dwelling. So, there you have it. Now, I'm Daniel from Goldline Construction, and I actually teach on this information. I've got a 7-step process that I take people through. We actually have a challenge. It's called the Minor Dwelling Challenge, and we, I teach my 7-step process, and the 7-step process is basically going to be: Step 1 - taking you to the Auckland Unitary Plan Maps Viewer and checking out what your zone is, what your property zone is, and looking at the standards that apply to your property zone. Step 2 - is taking you to the Auckland Council GeoMaps website and bringing up your property zone on the GeoMaps website and having a look at any issues that might be on your property, whether that's an Overland Flow Path or a Flood Plain, or whether it's assets like stormwater pipes and sewer pipes on your property. We look at all of those things. And then, Step 3 - is having a look at a few examples on the Auckland Council GeoMaps website of properties that can fit a stand-alone Minor Dwelling and properties that can't fit a stand-alone Minor Dwelling or aren't likely to be able to fit it. Step 4 - we take you to the Auckland Development Contribution Estimating Tool, and we have a look at how much the council are actually going to sting you for development contribution fees because every property, when its subdivided or when it's developed initially it has a fee that's paid to counsel for putting one dwelling on it. So, any additional dwelling that you put on an existing site is going to require development contribution fees to be paid to the council. Step 5 - we go through and have a look at the different service connections that are going to be required. So that's things like sewer, stormwater, water, power and phone, Internet and potentially gas as well. And then step 6 - we look at the actual building costs so it might be foundations that we look at. We look at the actual building costs, and we look at any other things that are going to be required like landscaping, fencing, maybe driveways, concrete, that type of thing. And then step 7 - we actually string it all together. I've got what I call the Goldline Feasibility Checklist, or the Minor Dwelling Feasibility Checklist, and it's a spreadsheet that I've come up with, with a whole lot of costings on it for the different things, like service connections, like where we can put the cost for development contribution fees, and I go through the whole process. And at the end of it, at the end of step 7, you should be able to work out a fairly accurate ballpark estimate of what it will cost to put a Minor Dwelling on your property. #MinorDwelling #GrannyFlat # AucklandUnitaryPlan