New planning regime panned

Mountain Scene
By PHILIP CHANDLER
A local planner warns Queenstown will lose its planning autonomy under the government’s proposals to replace the Resource Management Act (RMA).
Instead of a council district plan, this area would operate under a regional plan run out of Dunedin or Invercargill — one of 14 regional plans across New Zealand.
Experienced planner Blair Devlin, who’s with planning and landscape architecture  consultancy Vivian + Espie but has also worked for the Queenstown and Dunedin councils
and for central government, says ‘‘when you think of health and transport, when they’re based out of Dunedin, Queenstown’s always the poor cousin’’.

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