ABSTRACT
The legal and regulatory frameworks in place at the beginning of the 21st century, in both England and New Zealand, seem to be facilitating the growth of private residential neighbourhoods. The policy objectives of encouraging high-density, inner-city housing developments are common to both countries, although deriving from very different cultural backgrounds and policy concerns. Yet in neither country is the growth of private residential neighbourhoods a policy objective, and in many ways such developments would seem inimical to stated government aims.
