Plan Change 2: Housing and Code of Practice

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Council has been working since September 2024 on preparing a Plan Change to address housing need in Invercargill.

There is enough zoned land to accommodate housing growth generally, but there is existing unmet need for smaller attached medium density housing within a 1.5km radius of the CBD. Amending the District Plan rules will help unlock development to address this.

Our District Plan policies and rules do not enable medium density housing development. We have modelled the proposed Plan Change approach against a range of growth scenarios and options, and the Plan Change would unlock significant new capacity that would meet high-growth needs to ease central housing shortages.

This Plan Change aims to:

  • Enable greater density and diversity of housing choice in the Residential 1 and 1A Zones in Invercargill;
  • Promote well-designed housing to through changes to objectives and policies and
  • Delete references to the expired Invercargill City Council Bylaw 2016 and update to reference the Code of Practice for Subdivision, Land Use, and Development which sits outside the District Plan.

Plan Change 2 was publicly notified for submissions on 14 January 2026. You can make a submission here, or email the prescribed Form 5 to planning@icc.govt.nz, or post it to:

Housing and Code of Practice Plan Change (Plan Change 2)
Invercargill City Council
Private Bag 90104
Invercargill

Submissions close at 5pm on 13 February 2026.

  • An information sheet on the plan change is here
  • The public notice of the plan change is here
  • The Plan Change and supporting documents, as well as preferred approach documents are here




Council has been working since September 2024 on preparing a Plan Change to address housing need in Invercargill.

There is enough zoned land to accommodate housing growth generally, but there is existing unmet need for smaller attached medium density housing within a 1.5km radius of the CBD. Amending the District Plan rules will help unlock development to address this.

Our District Plan policies and rules do not enable medium density housing development. We have modelled the proposed Plan Change approach against a range of growth scenarios and options, and the Plan Change would unlock significant new capacity that would meet high-growth needs to ease central housing shortages.

This Plan Change aims to:

  • Enable greater density and diversity of housing choice in the Residential 1 and 1A Zones in Invercargill;
  • Promote well-designed housing to through changes to objectives and policies and
  • Delete references to the expired Invercargill City Council Bylaw 2016 and update to reference the Code of Practice for Subdivision, Land Use, and Development which sits outside the District Plan.

Plan Change 2 was publicly notified for submissions on 14 January 2026. You can make a submission here, or email the prescribed Form 5 to planning@icc.govt.nz, or post it to:

Housing and Code of Practice Plan Change (Plan Change 2)
Invercargill City Council
Private Bag 90104
Invercargill

Submissions close at 5pm on 13 February 2026.

  • An information sheet on the plan change is here
  • The public notice of the plan change is here
  • The Plan Change and supporting documents, as well as preferred approach documents are here




  • Submission On Proposed Housing And Code Of Practice Plan Change (Plan Change 2) to the Invercargill City District Plan

    SUBMISSION ON PROPOSED HOUSING AND CODE OF PRACTICE PLAN CHANGE (PLAN CHANGE 2) TO THE INVERCARGILL CITY DISTRICT PLAN 

    FORM 5 UNDER CLAUSE 6 OF THE FIRST SCHEDULE OF THE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT 1991

    Please note all information provided in this submission will be made publicly available

    Please note that your submission (or part of your submission) may be struck out if the authority is satisfied that at least one of the following applies to the submission (or part of the submission):

    • it is frivolous or vexatious;
    • it discloses no reasonable or relevant case; 
    • it would be an abuse of the hearing process to allow the submission (or the part) to be taken further; 
    • it contains offensive language; or
    • it is supported only by material that purports to be independent expert evidence, but has been prepared by a person who is not independent or who does not have sufficient specialised knowledge or skill to give expert advice on the matter.

    Once the closing date for submissions has passed, Council will publicly notify all submissions received, prepare a summary of submissions, and will allow a period for further submissions in support of, or in opposition to, those submissions already made. 

    Council hearings for the plan change will then be arranged to consider all submissions. Anyone who has made a submission and indicated that they wish to be heard will have the right to attend the hearings and present their submission. 

    If you have any questions regarding Plan Change 2, or the submission process, please do not hesitate to contact the Planning Department via email planning@icc.govt.nz

    • You may find it useful to review our Key Documents section and our Useful Links section before you provide your feedback. 
    • You are unable to save this form to continue later. You can review the questions before starting on the PDF version of our Feedback Form, which is included in our Key Documents section.
    • If you have any supplementary documents you wish to include with your feedback, please send them to planning@icc.govt.nz(External link) and clearly state that they are to be added to your online feedback
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