This bill will allow our major cities, in Wellington, Auckland, Tauranga, Hamilton, and Christchurch to grow both up and out. It will allow people to add more housing to existing residential areas and to add the kind of housing that first-home buyers can more readily achieve—that is apartments, townhouses, smaller dwellings. We need more of those choices for the first-home buyers of today and tomorrow, and this bill will enable more of them to be built. It also allows for the fast-tracking of greenfields development on the outskirts of our major urban areas so that more housing can be built on the outskirts of our city. In short, taken together these measures will reduce the cost, the complexity, and the delays that currently face too many people when they set about trying to build a new house on an existing residential section. It will make it easier and it will unlock more homes.