Press Release – New Zealand Government
The Government is delivering on its promise to reform the Resource Management system based on the comprehensive review carried out last year.
Hon David Parker
Minister for the Environment
The Government is delivering on its promise to reform the Resource Management system based on the comprehensive review carried out last year.
The Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) will be repealed and replaced with new laws this parliamentary term, Environment Minister David Parker confirmed today.
The three new Acts will be the:
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Natural and Built Environments Act (NBA) to provide for land use and environmental regulation (this would be the primary replacement for the RMA)
The repeal and replacement of the RMA is incredibly complex, and time will be taken to get the legislation right, the Environment Minister says.
It would be a further three to four years before the new laws to replace the RMA had any material effect on the housing market, David Parker says.
Photo: RNZ / Tess Brunton
Three new laws will cover land use and environmental regulation, strategic planning for future development, and climate change adaptation. This is a very big thing to give birth to, said David Parker, and it would be like triplets to deliver it all at once - one at a time.
Housing crisis, Covid misinformation, racism: Problems flagged to new ministers
The Government has published all the ministers briefings on their portfolios. Photo / Supplied
Housing crisis, Covid misinformation, racism: Problems flagged to new ministers Wed, 16 Dec 2020, 4:19PM
Racism in health, extremism in prisons, light rail in Auckland, coronavirus misinformation and an ongoing housing crisis are among the priorities outlined to incoming ministers in hundreds of pages of documents released this morning.
The Briefings to Incoming Ministers (BIM) were released on the Beehive website at 10am.
The briefings are from officials on important and developing issues in their respective portfolios as well as previous work in key policy areas.
They will be completely flattened in the next election.
Oh look; two moons! by PocketAces | 12th Dec 20, 3:39pm 1607740790
There s only one party with any sort of chance actually gives a damn and that s the Greens, so if the labour party falls for ap them then so be it, the Nats will do nothing, ACT will do less than nothing
Login or Register to post/report comments. by Hook | 12th Dec 20, 4:32pm 1607743962
BS to the Greens - their answer is more tax. That won t do shit to solve or alleviate the problem
Login or Register to post/report comments. by Roger the dodger |
An avalanche of RMA reform – are we ready and what will it mean for infrastructure?
After years of repeated demands for the RMA to be dumped and blamed for a myriad of major issues (from water quality to the housing crisis), the RMA s demise seems imminent.
While this article is focused on infrastructure, and the path ahead, it is critical for all New Zealanders that the policy settings of the RMA replacement legislation, and its subordinate policies are properly set. Failure to do so will be felt for generations to come. There is a significant and pressing need for major infrastructure upgrades across New Zealand. We have invested far too little over the last 30+ years. Much of our infrastructure is creaking; at or over capacity; at the end of its design life; and/or failing to provide sustainable environmental, social, cultural and economic outcomes. Significantly adding to these problems is the effect of climate change on existing infrastructure, and the need for new infrastru