The dirt on the National Policy Statement for highly productive land
Case Review: Gray v Dunedin City Council, Balmoral Developments (Outram) Limited v Dunedin City Council and the National Policy Statement for Highly Productive Land. By...
Author : Alan Titchall
The FPP or STV question rolls around again
This year most councils and communities again face the question of whether to use FPP or STV for the next triennial elections in 2025. Gavin...
Where are we at with the water reform programme?
By CCNZ Chief Executive Alan Pollard. Most recently, CCNZ opposed the draft Water Services Legislation Bill, not challenging the need for reform, but challenging the...
COASTAL LANDFILL remediation case study
Historic coastal landfills pose a threat to our coastlines and Waitaki District Council is working to minimise this risk posed by three coastal land sites...
Give us a local voice in RMA reform, too
By Mayor of Hamilton, Paula Southgate Everyone across the country, and certainly in local government, has focused extensively on the fast-moving, ever-changing arena of reform. ...
Views on revamped three waters reform
Photo: The boundaries of the ten water services entities. By Alan Titchall. A wolf now dressed up as a lamb? Most councils and observers remain...
Responding to serious challenges TOGETHER
By Alan Pollard, Civil Contractors New Zealand, Chief Executive As I reflect on the increasingly challenging situation we find ourselves in – politically, economically, socially,...
A tough lesson over swimming pool fencing
Photo supplied: BUCHANAN AND MARSHALL v TASMAN DISTRICT COUNCIL [2023] NZHC 53 By Frana Divich, partner, Heaney & Partners. The High Court recently found that...
Controlling the narrative
By Peter Dunne One of the lessons the Government learned early in the Covid response was the importance of ‘controlling the narrative’. The flow of...
NIWA moves updated water modelling tool to test phase
Caption: The general CLUES menu on the right-hand pane in ArcGis Pro. A catchment model that predicts the impact of land use changes on water...