Accurately charging for infrastructure investment
In the first of a two-part feature on infrastructure funding for local government, David Norman, an executive advisor in GHD’s Economics and Strategy team, discusses...
Author : Alan Titchall
An environment veteran reflects on three decades
Environmental assurance group manager Dennis Bush-King retired this month (June 2022) after a 33-year career with the Tasman District Council. He arrived in the Nelson-Tasman...
In defence of von Tempsky’s legacy
By Alan Titchall As a student of history, I was taught it is bad practice to judge the prejudices of the past with the prejudices...
Defending building defects claims
By Sarah Macky, Heaney and Partners. A decision delivered by the High Court in March of this year is a helpful reminder of the challenges...
Overseas investments in council strategic assets
Local government owns and maintains assets and infrastructure that are strategically important to the whole country. The National Security and Public Order regime is in...
Resource management – lots of questions, few answers
By Lucy de Latour, a partner at Wynn Williams. This year [2022] is shaping up to be yet another busy year for local government and the...
Stop dragging treaty into policies where it’s of dubious value
By Shane Jones, former Labour MP and NZ First MP. As the Covid virus continued to move through the community, another virus spreads across our political...
It’s land and its wet but is it a wetland?
By Mike Doesburg, partner at Wynn Williams, specialising in resource management and environmental law. The Government’s Essential Freshwater Package had admirable ambitions: halting degradation of...
Freedom camping problem unsolved
By Linda O’Reilly, Tompkins Wake. Since the Freedom Camping Act 2011 came into law, numerous local authorities have tried and failed to introduce fully satisfactory...
The Caterpillar 933 – an ideal council machine
Aimed squarely at councils, local bodies and the small owner-operator, Caterpillar’s model 933 track loaders were genuine ‘jack of all trades’ earthmoving machines. Cheap to...