Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 12:07 pm
Today, Keith Marshall and Louise Buchanan released a
report examining how Councils were going at meeting their
legal obligations around completing residential swimming
pool inspections.
“Motivated by interactions with
our local Tasman District Council (TDC), we got to thinking
about what the situation nationwide might be” said Ms
Buchanan, a former senior organisational development manager
from the corporate sector. “This report arises from our
review of pool inspection data from across the local
government (Council) sector.”
In 2016, Parliament
made an array of legislative changes to amend the Building
Act to update and refresh various swimming pool fencing