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Summary of submissions

Making it easier to build granny flats.

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In June 2024, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) jointly released a discussion document, Making it easier to build granny flats. Through public consultation, feedback was sought on options to enable small, detached, self-contained dwellings of 60 square metres or less without a building or resource consent. This report summarises views submitted during the consultation, which ran from 17 June to 12 August 2024. 

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Executive summary

Part 1: Problem definition, outcomes, and safeguards

Part 2: Proposal under the Building Act 2004

Part 3: Proposal under the Resource Management Act 1991

Part 4: Notification and funding infrastructure

Part 5: Māori land, papakāinga and kaumātua housing

Appendix A: background, methodology and next steps

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