How connected are three water bylaws?
Three water bylaws, now relegated to the background amidst budget sheet separation, water service plans, service delivery models, and price regulation, play a crucial role...
Category : Legal
A lesson in framing EPA conditions
Mike Doesburg is a Partner at Wynn Williams who specialises in local government and environmental law. The subdivision and development of land often involves complex...
PWA land valuation is tricky business
Jenny Turner and Mike Doesburg, Partners at Wynn Williams who have expertise in negotiations and acquisition of land under the PWA. Valuing land that is...
Supreme Court green lights climate change case
Frana Divich, Partner, Heaney and Partners. On 7 February 2024 the Supreme Court allowed a novel climate change case called Smith v Fonterra Co-Operative Group...
Exploring value capture taxation
There seems to be a unanimous view that New Zealand needs more and improved infrastructure. From roads to three waters, every council has a wish...
New court decision for our ports
Tighten the halyard, bind the stays – stormy seas or calm water ahead for coastal planning, asks Mike Doesburg, Partner at Wynn Williams in its...
Foreshore and seabed debacle continues
A Court of Appeal decision released back in October over cultural and legal interpretation of the Marine and Coastal Area Act will have a profound...
What makes up ‘Capital Value’ according to the Court of Appeal
By Linda O’Reilly, special council, Tompkins Wake (July, 2023) Rates are set under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 (LGRA) based on the capital value...
Obligations to remedy non-compliance by past owners
By Frana Divich, Heaney and Partners. Recently the High Court was asked to decide what it described as “a short but not particularly easy point”...
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...