Huapai Triangle is one of the first Special Housing Areas under NZ Government’s HASHA Act. This legislation, intended to rapidly increase land supply for housing, allowed approved projects to adopt Auckland Council’s Unitary Plan well in advance of it being made operative. The large triangular site adjoins the existing Huapai township. The overall subdivision will ultimately house up to 2,500 new residents, half of which are within the Cabra/GRP Management’s land holding.

Construkt collaborated with Cato Bolam on masterplanning and resource consenting and went on to design the neighbourhood centre and central park and prepare urban design reports. As with much of Construkt’s work on medium density housing, lot testing was carried out to determine block sizes to suit the intended housing typologies, which in turn informed the direction for the masterplan.