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Māori Party MP Debbie Ngarewa Packer is cautiously optimistic a replacement to the Resource Management Act will be a plus for Māori.
Opposition from the Māori Party held up the previous National government’s attempts to rewrite the law, leaving current Environment Minister David Parker to finish the job.
He’s proposing a new Natural and Built Environments Act, a Strategic Planning Act and one covering actions to respond to climate change.
Ms Ngarewa Packer says the Māori party is concerned about the balance between protecting the taiao and ensuring its people can afford homes.
Our concern is what is the consultation and exercises going on engaging with communities, including rural communities? And about what [the Natural and Built Environments Act] might look like, particularly the impact on our lives that this will have, Williams told Magic Talk s Rural Exchange over the weekend.
A draft of the Natural and Built Environments Act will be referred to a select committee in the middle of this year. But Williams says this does not give communities enough time to absorb, consider and submit on the contents of the Bill . As we all know from our regional or district plans around the country they re complex and they re interrelated and there s trade-offs and there s pros and cons to different approaches. So all those things need to explored in the context of what we do in our business world what our aspirations are in terms of our environment, our future generations, our social impacts, employment and jobs and wellbeing, and those are difficult conversations
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