The Resource Legislation Amendment Bill, the Productivity Commission Report and the future of Planning for the Environment in New Zealand

Authors

  • Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v12i4.4622

Keywords:

Resource Management Act (RMA), Productivity Commission, Better Urban Planning issues paper, Brundtland Report, environmental safeguards, evidence-based policy, local government legislation, constitutional principles

Abstract

Let us begin with the proposition that there is much in the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) that needs to be fixed. How that cure is to be effected is not widely agreed. Indeed, the policy surrounding the Resource Management Act at present seems confused. We need to stop and ask, what are we trying to do in this space? I shall in this address try to unravel the issues. Being a planner in this febrile policy context must have its challenges.

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Policy Quarterly volume 12 issue 4 2016

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2016-11-01

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Vol. 12 No. 4 (2016): Policy Quarterly

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