One of the recommendations to come out of the Royal Commission Report on Auckland Governance is that an Urban Development Agency could be created which would have a role in ensuring that the more complex urban renewal in planned nodes and corridors is achieved. This agency, made up of unelected and unaccountable appointees will have the power to compulsorily acquire land for urban renewal. What this means is that someone who does not like or approve the area in which you live can throw you out of the house that may have been yours for decades and give the land to a developer whose plans conform to the vision of the Urban Design Agency.
In Liverpool, England an elderly lady has fought against the compulsory acquisition of her Victorian house, and the laws that enable such state vandalism.
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