The Housing, Building and Associate Finance Ministers have marked the start of new rules allowing easier building of small dwellings.
Chris Bishop, Chris Penk and Shane Jones visited a granny flat in Auckland's Riverhead on Thursday.
They were there to talk up the changes as well as shifts in national direction linked to the government's resource management reforms.
The new granny flat rules allow a small dwelling with a simple design of up to 70 square metres to be built without a resource consent, and are in
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