I have resided in Te Atatu Peninsula for 20 years and recently shifted to Te Atatu South. I am a self-employed architectural designer and have worked in the building industry for over 50 years and a 5 year term as a lecturer at Unitec in the National Diploma of Architectural Technology. I am outraged at the fees Auckland Council, Watercare and AT, charge for the resource and building consent processes. These are entrenched monopolies with no commercial competition to set fair and reasonable fees. I am concerned at the face of West Auckland is being changed from the single house with a yard for kids to play; now to having 11 units on a site with no carparking spaces on the site. This creates a problem for street parking and secondary where car thieves come regularly so we have the police helicopter nearly every night. This is not my west.