A quiz for council prospects
Welcome to election year [2022] and here’s a quiz for anyone thinking of standing. By Elizabeth Hughes. It really doesn’t seem that long ago that...
Author : Alan Titchall
A district mayor’s perspective
Greg Lang, the first term mayor of Carterton, a small rural town in the central North Island talks with Richard Silcock about his role representing...
Delivering on community needs looking beyond three waters
Matt Fyffe has an extensive background in public sector and construction consultancy services, both here and in the UK. In recent years he has worked...
The ‘longstop’ provision in the Building Act 2004
By Frana Divich, Heaney and Partners. One of the things that makes the law interesting is that different legal brains can come to different decisions...
Keeping ‘placemaking’ in focus through reform
By Garry Dyet, chief executive at Waipa District Council and Robert Brodnax, senior principal advisory at Beca. Placemaking is, ‘The process of strengthening the connection...
Cultural heritage information and councils
By Amanda Cossham and Sarah Welland, lecturers at the Open Polytechnic of NZ and co-directors of Lindisfarne Information Consulting. Local authorities manage cultural and historic...
Hull marine pest survey starts again
Divers plan to check 2000-plus boat hulls from this month until May 2022 as part of an ongoing search targeting unwanted pests threatening Northland’s marine...
Senseless race to zero
By Mike Yardley writer and media commentator. As China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam crack on building six hundred more coal-fired power plants, fear not,...
NEEDED – more time for a more comprehensive approach
By Linda O’Reilly, special council, Tompkins Wake. I have just taken two months off from local government, but local government itself has had no time...
Holidays Act compliance – the red flags
Article supplied by tax specialist company, Grant Thornton NZ. The Holidays Act 2003 is one of the single hardest pieces of legislation for employers to...