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NZPI’s “Back to the Future” Conference
Saturday, 18 April 2015, 11:50 am | NZ Planning Institute
Young Planners and Maori Focused Projects Shine at NZPI’s “Back to the Future” Conference More >>
Planning Awards panel begins looking over nominations
Monday, 2 March 2015, 5:34 pm | NZ Planning Institute
Planning Awards panel begins looking over nominations Nominations have closed for the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI) Awards covering 2014, and the judges are now considering them. Awards include the Wallace Ross Graduate Award for undertaking ... More >>
Don’t scapegoat the RMA, say planners
Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 1:57 pm | NZ Planning Institute
Building and Housing Minister, the Hon. Nick Smith, last month stood in front of 80,000 pages of printed regulations and blamed the Resource Management Act for slowing the development of new housing. More >>
Positive planners win national Distinguished Service Awards
Friday, 7 November 2014, 3:11 pm | NZ Planning Institute
Planners from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and the Kapiti Coast have been honoured this week with Distinguished Service Awards from the New Zealand Planning Institute. More >>
NZPI backs Minister’s affordable housing stance
Thursday, 16 October 2014, 2:40 pm | NZ Planning Institute
NZPI backs Minister’s affordable housing stance NZPI is supportive of Hon. Dr Nick Smith’s, efforts to use the RMA as a mechanism for taking the heat out of the housing affordability challenge in New Zealand. “As Minister for Environment ... More >>
Urban planning not to blame for inequality
Wednesday, 8 October 2014, 2:34 pm | NZ Planning Institute
Regardless of whether the government accepts or rejects a growing gap in equality within New Zealand, it has agreed that there are a variety of national and international issues that cause inequality, including finance and tax policy, under and un-employment, ... More >>
Positive planning no handbrake on development
Tuesday, 23 September 2014, 12:00 pm | NZ Planning Institute
Positive planning no handbrake on development Planners in New Zealand are doing an efficient job of processing resource consents according to the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI). More >>
Remote Pacific atoll challenge lures Christchurch planner
Monday, 25 August 2014, 2:30 pm | NZ Planning Institute
How do you come up with an urban development plan for a city which consists of tiny islets connected by causeways located in a remote Pacific atoll and subject to flooding on the next king tide? More >>
A glimpse into NZ’s future at planning conference launch
Monday, 4 August 2014, 5:37 pm | NZ Planning Institute
Insights into a world first for planning are to be delivered on Wednesday at the award winning Auckland Art Gallery, with proceedings set to be a precursor for the New Zealand Planning Institute’s (NZPI) 2015 Conference. More >>
NZPI urges Government to consider planning principles
Wednesday, 9 July 2014, 4:21 pm | NZ Planning Institute
The New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI) is urging the Government to consider a suite of NZPI-developed guiding principles on freshwater quality issues when it implements its upcoming freshwater reforms. More >>
Queenstown planner in 4000km Race Against Time
Thursday, 19 June 2014, 1:03 pm | NZ Planning Institute
Queenstown planner Carey Vivian will ride his mountain bike 4000km off road from Cape Reinga to Bluff to raise awareness and funds to fight the insidious disease that struck his father two years ago. More >>
NZPI backs Minister’s right to submit on Unitary Plan
Monday, 16 June 2014, 3:20 pm | NZ Planning Institute
NZPI backs Minister’s right to submit on Auckland Unitary Plan The New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI) is backing Environment Minister Amy Adams’ right to have a say on Auckland’s Unitary Plan through a controversial submission made today. More >>
Canterbury and Auckland star in national planning awards
Monday, 7 April 2014, 10:27 am | NZ Planning Institute
Canterbury and Auckland projects were the big winners at the 2014 New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI) Awards, presented in Queenstown tonight, with Canterbury sweeping five of the 11 awards and an Auckland planning consultancy picking up the Supreme ... More >>
Guiding principles on urban growth released
Friday, 21 March 2014, 11:19 am | NZ Planning Institute
Guiding principles on urban growth released More collaboration is needed to deal with the country’s burgeoning urban growth issues and future-proof our communities, according to a report released this week by the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI). More >>
Unmanaged Urban Sprawl A Step Backward
Thursday, 13 June 2013, 4:32 pm | NZ Planning Institute
Releasing land to saturate the housing market, as the Government seems to be keen to do through the Housing Accord Bill, will not solve housing affordability issue, according to the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI). More >>
Auckland Student Planners Gain World Wide Recognition
Friday, 31 May 2013, 10:08 am | NZ Planning Institute
Ying Liu and Yuqing Zhou, both student planners studying at Auckland University were two of many entrants who participated in the International Federation of Housing and Planning competition. Entrants from student teams around the world illustrated ... More >>
Smith’s Comments on Aucklands MUL Raises Questions
Wednesday, 13 March 2013, 12:20 pm | NZ Planning Institute
Dr Smith’s Comments on Aucklands MUL Raises Questions for the New Zealand Planning Institute New Zealand Planning Institute 13 March 2013 The New Zealand Planning Institute notes with concern Dr Nick Smith’s description of Auckland's metropolitan urban ... More >>
International Housing Availability Survey
Monday, 12 February 2007, 10:21 am | NZ Planning Institute
The New Zealand Planning Institute® strongly supports Demographia’s call for planners, local councils and developers to collaborate more proactively and effectively on the provision of an adequate supply of affordable new residential housing. In fact, ... More >>
International Housing Availability Survey
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 11:59 am | NZ Planning Institute
The New Zealand Planning Institute® strongly supports Demographia’s call for planners, local councils and developers to collaborate more proactively and effectively on the provision of an adequate supply of affordable new residential housing. In ... More >>
