What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Bob Culver]

Until now recent building requirements here have stipulated off street parking. Many modern dwellings had an integral garage. it always amused me that these were so often sold carpeted. Owners had no intention of using such valuable space for a car. The rules now changed and no parking required. So if like thousands of Poms who immigrated here in the 70s you are attracted to NZ by the propsect of an inexpensive house on 1/5 acre with lotsa space for the fleet, forget it. if you are not a multi millionare and wish to live near major city centre, you are just as likely to end up in an apartment like those blanketing England from the 1890s.