The Christchurch City Council has voted unanimously to support a plan to intensify housing in the earthquake-hit city.
After 30 minutes of debate on Thursday, councillors endorsed the Government's Land Use Recovery Plan which will allow more homes to be built on existing plots in urban areas.
Last week, mayor Lianne Dalziel used a technicality to postpone the vote because she wanted more time to discuss it with Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee and negotiate changes.
The main change is that the council has pared back areas where intensive housing will be allowed. However, as a compromise it has approved new city-wide high density social housing redevelopments.
The plan will, for example, make it easier to turn one dwelling into two, and allow elderly and family units to be used by anyone.
The scheme still has to be given approval by the Cabinet and that is expected before the end of this year.
