Henderson EmilyDr EMILY HENDERSON (Labour—Whangārei): Kia ora e te Māngai o te Whare. It gives me great pleasure to rise and take this call on this really lovely little bill put forward by my colleague and friend in the class of 2020 Tangi Utikere. I have a confession to make too: I was not raised in Palmerston North. In fact I have been trying to dig back into my memories and I thought for a while there I had never been to Palmerston North and I was feeling deeply ashamed but then I remembered the occasion of my uncle Simon's marriage to my aunty Jenny when I was about 11 which was marked—and I'm sure this is why I otherwise failed to remember the amazing rose garden of Palmerston North and its many beauties and treasures—by the unfortunate fall of my little sister Georgie from a jungle gym in the camping ground we were all staying in for the wedding when she broke her arm in two places.But that trauma aside what we see here is the potential of the healing the healing of the bones of the community which is housing. I am—no chuckle for my metaphor? Not a single chuckle for my metaphor?Angie Warren-Clark: I chuckled.Dr EMILY HENDERSON: There was a chuckle—thank you. What excites me about this bill is that here we have another town a little bit like mine a similar size to my Whangārei in some ways a similar situation in that it's a mix of the agricultural and the business and the innovation. They of course have major universities centred there which we do not. But they do have this reputation for innovation and I thought it's really interesting to see a council that is prepared to take the initiative in bringing forward land that is otherwise locked away from development for the purpose of housing. It is a difficult thing for a little local council to do because they are exposed to the intensities of local reaction in a way that sometimes as MPs in this House we are not. So I really do commend the Palmerston North City Council for bringing this matter to this House's attention for hopefully a resolution where all aspects of its community will see this as a positive step.When I look at the possibilities for this bit of land which as my colleagues have already described is surrounded by amenities is surrounded from the wonderful rose-named Blue Moon Dairy through to parks and the open space that you need around any intensive development the potential to take this block of land and turn it into a great place to live but also—and I'm going to echo our colleague Eugenie Sage—to look at using some medium density there so that we can house more of our people.I spent a period living in the UK where my family of four kids my husband and me lived in a little two-up two-down house in a dense college where you had a little quadrangle of flats full of children and their parents around green space and it was one of the best ways we've ever lived as a family. The ability to build community connections to have that support from your neighbours to have a real sense of place and of each other it was a marvellous way to support each other as parents. There was no loneliness in a well-designed medium-density villagette. That I hope is the sort of thing that our councils up and down the land will look at taking forward and they can do so now under the housing intensification plans that were brought forward by this House only this week.So it is with excitement and hope that I look to see what happens with this bill and excitement and hope that I look to see what happens right through our provincial towns like mine where I hope that our councils and our developers will take leadership and we'll imagine together with their communities a new way of housing that will look after our people as they have not been looked after for many years but will do so in a way that is environmentally sustainable and builds good communities. I commend this to the House.