DESIGN SOLUTIONS

“This year The Block site focuses on high-density living (in semi-detached terrace houses) rather than the quarter-acre dream,” explains Peter. “For growing cities like Auckland and many other main centres, this is the future. This effectively is The Block meets the Auckland Unitary Plan – where before there was one three-bedroom dwelling on the property, there will now be four family homes, each 250 square metres in total. It’s a lot more people on the same amount of land, which is intensification.

“One of the great features of the homes is going to be the rooftop terraces. Admittedly, our site coverage is greater than we would normally expect, so the trade-off for that is to give each of the homes its own roof terrace to allow occupants to enjoy fresh air and views and potentially homegrown veges.”