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This booklet is a guide to whānau papakāinga housing available to you, your whānau and community. This guide sets out a step-by-step process to assist whānau to plan for and complete papakāinga housing on Māori Freehold and in some cases General Land, with checklists, tips, advice and case studies to progress your papakāinga housing development as a six step approach.
Read MorePapakāinga developments can be difficult. A lot of people and organisations are involved and it can be hard to get agreement. The Te Tai Tokerau Papakāinga toolkit is designed to help Māori land owners understand and navigate the process for undertaking a papakāinga development on their ancestral lands.
Read MoreBuilding Guide covers the process of building and renovating a home, right through from initial starting points, through design, construction and product selection. It is regionally focussed and includes key points out of the Building Act for people doing new builds or home renovations.
Read MoreBuilding Guide covers the process of building and renovating a home, right through from initial starting points, through design, construction and product selection. It is regionally focussed and includes key points out of the Building Act for people doing new builds or home renovations.
Read MoreBuilding Guide covers the process of building and renovating a home, right through from initial starting points, through design, construction and product selection. It is regionally focussed and includes key points out of the Building Act for people doing new builds or home renovations.
Read MoreBuilding Guide covers the process of building and renovating a home, right through from initial starting points, through design, construction and product selection. It is regionally focussed and includes key points out of the Building Act for people doing new builds or home renovations.
Read MoreKi te hau Kāinga: New Perspectives on Māori Housing Solutions is a report prepared for Housing New Zealand Corporation in 2002 (with a preliminary update completed in 2014) which outlines both general masterplanning principles and guidelines for the design of individual dwellings. Of particular importance are the concepts of tapū and noa, and how these impact the arrangement and adjacency of spaces that are conducive to Māori whānau dynamics and cultural practices.
Read MoreThe Māori Housing Toolkit is a step-by-step guide designed to assist Māori to develop papakāinga proposals (development plan) on multiple owned Māori land. The concept of papakāinga is not new and has traditionally been associated with Māori housing in a Marae setting. Papakāinga areas have also included other activities such as: kohanga reo, kura kaupapa, health clinic, horticulture or agriculture, sports and/or recreational areas, urupa and heritage sites.
Read MoreThe Papakainga Development Guide published in 2008; was a joint project by the three agencies: Hastings District Council, the Maori Land Court: Takitimu, and Te Puni Kokiri: Takitimu Region.
The guide is laid out as a workbook to cover each stage of a papakainga development project: whanau (getting the approval and viable relationships within the collective ownership of land); whenua (the legal forms under which the land may be occupied); and, whare (the consents required – building, waste water management, for example).
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