If you receive a letter from NZTA about your land being affected by the Northland Corridor get expert legal advice now and start negotiating with NZTA now.  NZTA pays all costs direct, so it costs the landowner nothing.. You can also access extra incentive payments up to $242,000.  The early bird gets the worm.

The Northland Corridor is a 100 km stretch of highway connecting Auckland to Northland.  It comprises three roads defined as roads of national significance – Warkworth to Te Hana, Te Hana to Port Marsden Highway and Port Marsden Highway to Whangārei.

NZTA is contacting landowners in the preferred route and arranging individual meetings with impacted landowners beginning with the Alternative to the Brynderwyn Hills section.

The roads are critical infrastructure under the recent amendments to the Public Works Act 1981 that enables land owners to get additional incentive payments on top of payment for the value of the property and the meeting of all fees including legal, valuation and expert.

Under the PWA the NZTA is obligated to try to agree compensation before taking any acquisition steps.  You can use the free mediation service to try to get an agreement.

Where land is acquired for a critical infrastructure project, landowners will receive the following premium payments:

• an incentive payment of 15 percent of land value where a landowner has reached an agreement to voluntarily sell their land before a Notice of Intention is issued, with a minimum payment of $5,000 and a maximum payment of $150,000; and
• a recognition payment of five percent of land value for all landowners whose land is acquired under the accelerated process, with a maximum payment of $92,000.