Enhancing a national visitor icon
Boffa Miskell and Stantec have been consulting on the Milford Opportunities Project, managing conservation, landscape and natural hazards within the World Heritage Site. By Andrew...
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The hare-brained MDRS
DAVID SEYMOUR, LEADER OF THE ACT PARTY. Labour and National have promised new homes to a generation by burying their normal political differences. Unfortunately, their...
Sound! Lights! Action! Lawyers?
Jane Arnott, Director of The Ethics Conversation, says it’s time potentially inadvertent errors of judgement are accounted for without recourse to lawyers and litigation. We...
Council makes and sells its own moonshine
In recent years both local and national museums have made moves to attract a much wider range of visitors with new models and displays but...
Confessions and victories of a council activist
Wellington’s outspoken Owhiro Bay ‘water activist’, Eugene Doyle, outlines how his vexed relationship with Wellington Water transformed into a collaboration to help clean up the...
Building defects and council liability
Sarah Macky, Heaney & Partners. Councils are often sued for defects in building work in circumstances where they have received and relied upon the expertise...
Is buying locally the answer for council procurement?
By Peter Silcock The ‘buy local’ movement has seen a renaissance over the past year, but the jury is still out on whether councils are...
An opportunity to shape local government future
The upcoming 2021 LGNZ Conference is promised to be an exciting opportunity for all attendees to reimagine local government from the ground up, says LGNZ...
Erebus memorial petition arrives at Parliament
By Vaughan Winiata. A petition with over 12,500 signatures including Erebus families and calling on the Prime Minister to stop the planned construction of an...
Got your shovel (and aggregate) ready?
By about this time last year, the pandemic caused us to head towards a month of lockdown. Wayne Scott, CEO, Aggregate and Quarry Association comments....