The RMA has been blamed for holding back development of new housing due to its complexity, and in July last year an independent review panel recommended repealing it and starting again.
The Government plans to replace it with three new laws this parliamentary term but the overall process will take years. Below the NBA will sit the Strategic Planning Act (SPA) and the Climate Adaptation Act (CAA), to address complex issues associated with managed retreat.
A major criticism of the RMA is that, despite being convoluted with overlapping regulations, it hasn t adequately protected the environment. One of the reasons for this is that it lacks environmental bottom lines.
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Forest & Bird welcomes the release of the draft
purpose of the Natural and Built Environment Act (NBA) but
wants a clearer hierarchy to put preserving nature
first.
“We welcome the Government s moves to improve
environmental outcomes through this replacement of the RMA,
but as it’s currently drafted it won’t avoid further
loss of nature,” said Forest & Bird’s RMA reform
campaign lead Rick Zwaan.
“The new Natural and Built
Environment Act is an opportunity to gift younger
generations the kind of healthy natural world they deserve.
That’s what was recommended in the Randerson Report and
Peter Ainsworth, Tory whip who served in the Shadow Cabinet and was passionate about the environment – obituary
Described as ‘a Technicolor human being’, he was Campaigning Politician of the Year in 1993 and championed English classical music
Peter Ainsworth at the 2000 Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth
Credit: Nils Jorgensen/Shutterstock
Peter Ainsworth, who has died suddenly aged 64, was Conservative MP for East Surrey from 1992 to 2010, a government whip under John Major, and shadow secretary for culture and later the environment under William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and David Cameron.
Yet he made as great a contribution to public life after leaving the Commons, as chairman of the Big Lottery Fund, the Churches Conservation Trust, the Elgar Foundation and the Heritage Alliance.
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