The release of the Cabinet paper outlining the government’s plans for resource management reform provides an insight into the thinking that is going on following last year’s recommendations from the Randerson Panel. “Overall, the architecture .
Put simply, says Taylor, the RMA is at the heart of national strategy. Its job is to set the balance between our economic ambitions and environmental limits. That means whatever replaces it will affect everything. Guy Salmon, of Nelson’s “blue-green” think tank, Ecologic – a member of the RMA’s original independent panel 30 years ago – says it could be New Zealand’s true coming of age moment.
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The Resource Management Act: After many patches and revisions, finally time to just replace it. The country might get around the table and figure out how to actually live within sustainable limits. Or, of course, it could all dissolve into the most unholy political bunfight.
Stupid and inconsistent : Urban sprawl set to swallow 31,000 hectares of prime land
9 Feb, 2021 06:09 AM
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The Environment Court last month rejected a proposal to re-zone part of the Pūkaki Peninsula near Auckland International Airport. Photo / Auckland Council
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By Stephen Forbes, Local Democracy Reporter
Urban sprawl looks set to eat up to 31,270ha of Auckland s most productive land over the next 35 years.
And, according to figures included in a recent Environment Court decision, the irreversible, cumulative loss of Auckland s prime horticultural land is accelerating.
A group of farmers and landowners had sought to overturn an Auckland Council decision rejecting their proposal to expand the Rural Urban Boundary and the Future Urban Zone across more than 83ha of land near Auckland Airport. But last month the Environment Court rejected the landowners plans to rezone the land.
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The Government has announced a resolution to speed up the removal from Mataura of ouvea premix, an aluminum dross by-product stored in an old paper mill.