Infill Subdivision
Unlock the potential of your urban property.
- Assess your infill subdivision and redevelopment opportunities
- Explore the best design options for your site
- Navigate planning, design and consenting
- Deliver your project from concept through to completion
Is your property suitable for an infill subdivision?
Many established residential properties can accommodate additional development.
Whether you're creating a vacant rear lot, replacing one or two existing homes with multiple new dwellings, or redeveloping a larger urban site, an infill subdivision can make better use of existing land and infrastructure.
Understanding planning controls, access, servicing, site constraints and development opportunities early helps establish the most appropriate pathway before significant investment is made.
Common infill subdivision opportunities
Rear lot subdivisions
Often referred to as back lot subdivisions, these projects create one or more additional lots behind an existing dwelling. In many cases the existing home can be retained, although some sites may require it to be relocated or removed to achieve compliant access and a practical site layout.
Comprehensive infill redevelopment
Larger urban sites may provide the opportunity to replace one or two existing homes with multiple new dwellings, making better use of the land while responding to planning requirements and local housing demand. These projects often combine subdivision with new housing and require coordinated planning, engineering, architecture, surveying and specialist technical inputs.
Thinking about subdividing your property? Talk to our subdivision specialists.
Contact us todayFinding the best development option
Understanding whether a subdivision is possible is only the first step. The greater value often comes from identifying the best way to develop the site.
As part of the feasibility process, our experienced Design Managers prepare concept sketches and explore multiple development options to test different layouts, access arrangements and subdivision outcomes. This design optioneering helps evaluate opportunities and constraints before progressing into detailed design and consenting.
Delivering your subdivision
Once a preferred development option has been established, we coordinate the services needed to move the project forward.
Depending on your project, this may include planning, surveying, engineering, architecture, resource consents, specialist technical assessments, construction support and subdivision completion. Our services are tailored to suit the scale and complexity of your development, whether you're creating a single additional lot or delivering a larger urban redevelopment.
Start with a site assessment
Every property is different, and understanding its potential is the best place to begin.
Whether you're considering a rear lot subdivision or a larger redevelopment, our team can assess your site's opportunities, explore development options and help establish the right pathway for your project.
Talk to our subdivision specialists today.
Infill Urban Subdivision Questions
In most parts of Auckland you will achieve a much higher yield by designing and building, say new terraced housing units, rather than subdividing. This is because there are minimum site sizes for subdivision, but not for building. Once new residential units are in place they can be subdivided off to a much lesser site size than is required for vacant lot subdivision. This doesn’t mean that subdivision isn’t a good option for you, as it may best meet your circumstances. We can assist in advising on what options may be available for both subdivision and residential building developments, together with approximate development costs for each option.
Infill subdivision can be completed within a year from start to finish. The extent to whether this can be a shorter or longer time will depend primarily on how much construction is required – the more the need for construction of service connections, driveway, etc, the more design, consentging and construction time that will be required. We can normally provide a reasonable time (and cost) estimate at the stage of our initial advice.
Our subdivision experts can advise you on the best subdivision options for your property. Our initial consultation providing this advice is free.
Costs of development will depend on the location of the site and its infrastructure requirements. The costs can vary considerably. We can advise you at an intial stage of consulaltion what costs are likley to be involved in your project, after we investigate the site characteristics, availablility of services etc.
An infill subdivision will generally require at least the services of a land surveyor, a planner and an engineer. Other disciplines, such as geotechnical engineering and traffic engineering can be required for larger projects.
Our subdivision experts can advise you on the best subdivision options for your property. Our initial consultation providing this advice is free.
To complete a subdivision the services of a Licensed or Registered Professional Surveyor are required. Subdivision is a core service we provide – we can guide you from the start through to the subdivision being completed.
