When urban intensification doesn’t work
Caption: Balmoral School playing field turned into a huge lake that spilled into the local suburb flooding housing during the storm over Auckland, January 27,...
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Essential public safeguards to democracy
The offices of the Ombudsman and the Controller and Auditor-General are two important independent statutory agencies charged with protecting aspects of the public interest against...
Urban places – dare to be bold
Russell Halliday, programme delivery director and market leader – Urban Places at Stantec, looks at urban places as about place and, more importantly, about the...
Guidance to council facilities and public spaces
Councils have received welcome guidance on their obligations to hire facilities to groups expressing controversial views. Article by Tompkins Wake. Prior to the pandemic, councils...
Government’s ‘climate’ regulatory regime explained
The Government’s climate regulation implications and observations for local authorities explained by Elliot Maassen, associate and Tegan Wadworth, solicitor, in Wynn Williams’ Environment and Planning...
‘Sorry’ seems to be the hardest word
At the end of November 2022, as Parliament sat under Extended Hours to pass the Committee of the Whole stage of the controversial Water Services...
Yes … we have a housing crisis
By Simon Angelo, editor, Wealth Morning. There weren’t enough homes to go around. So prices, especially in Auckland, reached ridiculous levels. As much as 11...
Government reveals its RMA reforms
Minister for the Environment, David Parker spoke at the LGNZ conference in July on governance and decision-making in the Labour Party’s proposed RMA reform. He insists ...
Unlocking the value of land transport data
Currently, transport asset data is unstructured, fragmented and not easily integrated and shared. Waka Kotahi, with the transport sector, has designed the first New Zealand...
One step forward for maintenance, two steps back
An extract from Swamp Fever by Gerard Hindmarsh – the story of his life as an alternative life-styler in Golden Bay, northwest of Nelson, published...