NBEA and SPA – what takes effect now
The Natural and Built Environment Act and Spatial Planning Act has been given Royal Assent. Mike Doesburg and Emmalene Lake from Wynn Williams, explains what...
Author : Alan Titchall
CARING ABOUT SOUND SCIENCE – carbon is not carbon dioxide
By Roy Cordato, Senior Economist Emeritus at the John Locke Foundation. Carbon dioxide – A heavy colourless gas, CO2, does not support combustion, dissolves in water to...
Getting Auckland back in charge of transport
By Wayne Brown, Mayor of Auckland. Auckland’s system of planning transport is broken and is in desperate need of fixing. It’s too complex, with too...
AKL transport project becomes heated state housing fight
It could be dead in the water after next month’s election but Labour’s $29b plus Light Rail project for Auckland continues to keep hostilities between...
Improving customer relations
Header Pic credit: Wellington City Council Jennie Gutry, Communications and Marketing Manager, at the Association of Local Government Information Management (ALGIM) talks to James Roberts,...
What the polling entrails tell us
By Peter Dunne, political observer Seasoned politicians and political observers follow the opinion poll ratings of the various parties in a way others might consider...
What makes up ‘Capital Value’ according to the Court of Appeal
By Linda O’Reilly, special council, Tompkins Wake (July, 2023) Rates are set under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 (LGRA) based on the capital value...
Making your community age-friendly
Supplied by the Office for Seniors. Age-friendly Cities and Communities is a global movement developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) covering more than 300...
Obligations to remedy non-compliance by past owners
By Frana Divich, Heaney and Partners. Recently the High Court was asked to decide what it described as “a short but not particularly easy point”...
Reactions to Local Government Review report
The final Future for Local Government Review report was released this month (June) with 17 recommendations for the Government. Reactions are mixed. It is the...