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Forrest Hill, Auckland: zoning and natural hazards
4,057 addresses in Forrest Hill (Devonport-Takapuna Local Board); 73.3 % of them in Mixed Housing Suburban.
Streets with the most addresses: Forrest Hill Road 416; East Coast Road 276; Bond Crescent 199; Becroft Drive 189; Selwyn Crescent 183; Richards Avenue 131; Sunnynook Road 128; Merriefield Avenue 123; William Souter Street 120; Ravenwood Drive 120.
Unitary Plan zones
- Mixed Housing Suburban: 2,974 addresses, 73.3 %
- Mixed Housing Urban: 1,010 addresses, 24.9 %
- Terrace Housing and Apartment Building: 38 addresses, 0.9 %
- Neighbourhood Centre: 15 addresses, 0.4 %
- Open Space - Informal Recreation: 10 addresses, 0.2 %
- Mixed Use: 6 addresses, 0.1 %
- Open Space - Sport and Active Recreation: 4 addresses, 0.1 %
Overlays and natural hazards
- 266 addresses (6.6 %) in liquefaction (calibrated) classed High or Medium or Possible; all classes: Very Low 3,723, Possible 266, Low 67
- 331 addresses (8.2 %) in liquefaction (basic) classed High or Medium or Possible; all classes: Very Low 3,726, Possible 331
- large-scale landslide: no address classed High or Very High (Low 3,976, Very Low 76, Moderate 2)
Not mapped at any address here: special character area, historic heritage place, significant ecological area, aircraft noise overlay, height variation control, tsunami evacuation zone, coastal inundation 1% AEP, coastal inundation 1% AEP + 1 m sea level.
Flood layers: GeoMaps (no open licence). Shallow landslide: in the report.
Titles and parcels
Freehold 2,280 (56.2 %); Cross lease 1,693 (41.7 %); Unit Title 71 (1.8 %); no title matched 8 (0.2 %); Gazette Notice 5 (0.1 %). Median parcel area outside unit titles: 754 m².
What building costs here
Devonport-Takapuna: NZ$3,445 per m² declared on 217 new house consents (September 2025 – August 2026), about NZ$516,750 for 150 m².
Nearby suburbs
Hauraki, Milford, Narrow Neck, Stanley Point, Sunnynook, Takapuna, Bayswater, Belmont