Developers continue to queue at Tauranga City Council's door to be considered for special housing areas, with proposed sites in Bethlehem and Ohauiti adding a further 298 houses to the city.

Council was approached this week by two developers looking to push through housing under Tauranga's Housing Accord – taking the number to five since the accord was signed in August.

The proposed areas of development in Bethlehem.

The first developer envisages developing 118 housings at the northern end of Bethlehem road, opposite O'Connor Road, with a price range between $360,000 and $500,000. An average section size will be 420m2.

The 12.5 hectare site is within the West Bethlehem Urban Growth Area and has spilt zoning. Area A, closest to the road, will be zoned residential while Area B will be rural-residential with the development introducing a greater density of houses.

An initial infrastructure assessment shows sufficient capacity within the existing stormwater, wastewater, water and transportation network to accommodate the demands of the proposal.

Across town in Adler Drive, Ohauiti, a landowner is eyeing up 13.9 hectares of their land to be considered a Special Housing Area. Split into two sections, Area A is 8ha and Area B is 5.9ha.

Council says there is limited information to what the development would look like but access to the 118 houses will be through an extension off the end of Adler Driver. The average section size is expected to be 500m2.

Area A of the Adler Drive proposal is within the Ohauiti Urban Growth Area, zoned for residential development and could be developed without Special Housing Area status.

Area B, on the other hand, is identified as a future growth area, after 2021, in the Regional Policy Statement and is currently zoned rural.

The proposed Ohauiti sites.

The Housing Accord will provide the opportunity to bring the development forward so long as adequate infrastructure is in place and land is assessed as suitable for residential.

Much like the Bethlehem Road site, Adler Drive is assessed to have sufficient capacity within existing wastewater, water and transportation network.

In August the Tauranga Housing Accord was signed by Tauranga City Council and the Government to help address housing issues in the city.

One of the ways this will be done is by identifying specific sites in the city that are deemed suitable for new housing.

On Monday councillors will deliberate on the first Special Housing Area request put forward by PMP Developments, in conjunction with Classic Builders for a vacant site in Waihi Road, Judea.

For further information about the proposed Bethlehem and Ohauiti developments, or to give council your feedback, click here.

Feedback must be received by 5pm on November 24, 2014.