For the past three and a half years, Benedict Ferguson has been working to create an active partnership between union members and Auckland Council –...
Waste management strategy How JustWaste helped Tasmania’s West Coast Council develop a waste management strategy by turning barriers into enablers. Isabel Axio shares the case...
Recent extreme weather events have once again raised debate about the best ways to ensure resilient and affordable stormwater management. Meanwhile, Patricia Moore reports that...
At the 2016 LGNZ EXCELLENCE Awards Fulton Hogan Excellence Award for Community Engagement. Highly Commended: Rotorua Lakes Council’s ‘Te Arawa Partnership Project’. This is a...
Contributory negligence or no claim? Sarah Macky, a partner at law firm Heaney & Partners explains the implications for councils. The Weathertight Homes Tribunal and the...
Councils are caught between demands to make their online databases and building records public and the need to safeguard the privacy of individuals. Octavia Palmer...
A collaborative pilot between Palmerston North City Council (PNCC), the building industry and central government aims to speed up and simplify processes for housing development....
The tyranny of distance is both a blessing and a curse for New Zealand’s smallest local authority. Chatham Islands mayor Alfred Preece tells Ruth Le...