The Future Development Strategy (FDS) is Auckland’s long-term approach to growth and development. It sets out how Auckland will grow and change over the next 30 years.

The FDS is a key planning tool to identify strategic priorities for the coordination and alignment of the council’s infrastructure planning and investment decisions with the timing and sequencing of growth.

Future urban areas are new greenfield areas which are developing or are yet to be established on the fringe of the existing urban area, and in rural and coastal settlements.

The FDS identifies the sequencing and timing of future urban land for development readiness over 30 years. Development readiness is linked to infrastructure prerequisites - key bulk infrastructure which development connects to or relies on, such as transport, water, wastewater and stormwater networks.

This layer is intended to be viewed at a regional scale, not to show information at the individual property level. In future urban areas, areas indicate the council’s high level, strategic approach to greenfield growth. Boundaries shown are indicative only. Any changes to zoning at the individual property level will be determined through a plan change process. and shown on the Auckland Unitary Plan maps.

Further information about the Future Development Strategy is available here.