National Planning Standards – a year on, what have we learnt?
It has now been one year since the National Planning Standards (‘planning standards’) prepared by the Ministry for the Environment came into effect. Hamish Wesney...
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Queenstown Town Centre Masterplan
Setting the direction for a district – Planning multiple integrated projects in a fast-growing area is never going to be easy. Here’s Queenstown’s answer to...
Iwi and Hapu Management Plans
Wendy Saunders (left) and Lucy Kaiser from GNS Science have been investigating the role of Iwi and Hapu Management Plans in managing natural hazards in...
Where do we dance? Planning social spaces in the suburbs
The UK has its pubs. In China, people go out at dusk to exercise in the streets. So, where do Kiwis go to socialise in the...
Smart Solutions Planning
With councils deep in the throes of their 2018-28 long term plans, Patricia Moore asked four specialists how planning processes are changing and how local...
Going digital right from the start
District plans are a key planning document for communities but how do councils make them easy to use – or even get residents to have...
Bay of Plenty Regional Council – First Mana Whakahono a Rohe
In June 2017, Bay of Plenty Regional Council was the first local authority in the country to receive an iwi authority Mana Whakahono a Rohe...
IOBY – In Our Back Yards
US crowdfunding initiative IOBY is the antithesis of NIMBYism. It looks for the positive in communities, one tiny project at a time. What’s more, it...
Wellington region – Together but separate
The benefits of an integrated approach for a multi-jurisdictional metropolitan area. The Local Government Commission has been working with local authorities in the Wellington region...
Expert calls for more walkable cities
An AECOM specialist has warned against building too much infrastructure in some New Zealand cities saying that experience overseas shows ‘walkable’ cities are a much...