Calls for a freeze on housing intensification in Auckland following the flooding is just a bid to stop development in the city's richer suburbs according to an urban development advocacy group.
Long-time councillor and former mayor Christine Fletcher spoked to Checkpoint calling for an immediate halt to housing intensification under the cross-party agreement which allows more homes closer together, and higher up.
She says a royal inquiry is needed to inform decisions around retreat and or a rebuild, along with an audit of the city's infrastructure first.
But Scott Caldwell from Greater Auckland, an advocacy group for quality urban development, says Fletcher's argument does not make sense.
