A Significant Election Year for LOCAL GOVERNMENT
By Dr Jean Drage, local government sector expert. It’s election year again for our local councils. In October, we will once again consider just who...
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Hobson’s over-stressed ghost STILL HAUNTS OUR FUTURE
By Alan Titchall, Editorial manager Local Government Magazine. You might have wondered, since the current Labour Party has been in power, why there has been...
Partnership platitudes
By Peter Dunne. Just three weeks ago [early October 2021] the Minister of Local Government received the interim report of the Future for Local Government...
Government’s water reform dictate widely condemned.
Predictably, the Government intends to go ahead with its proposed four independent three water entities after numerous councils around the country rejected it as an...
Urban density rule changes ignore flood risk
By Dr Alastair Barnett, Chair, IAHR Flood Risk Management Technical Committee. On 19 October, the Government announced; “New building intensification rules will mean up to...
Door open for developers to ride over town planning
Councils around the country are reeling with the Government’s cavalier dismissal of resource consents for the sake of chasing ‘affordable housing’, in the face of...
Lessons from Germany and strategic discipline
By Brett Crombie, director, Straightedge Accounting. The tempestuous business environment of the past 18 months has led to bankruptcies for some businesses and record profits...
Infrastructure funding – we need to change
Despite our national housing crisis and despite growth coming at us like a freight train, one fundamental issue is failing to ignite public debate. By...
The NPSUD and urban intensification in Auckland
Local Government magazine talks with John Duguid, the general manager for Plans and Places at Auckland Council, about the pressures of the NPSUD that came...
Forest & Bird corrected over wetlands
Forest & Bird’s opposition to new consenting pathways for quarries is a call to burn more fuel and add cost to every new home, roading...