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Government Releases Fast Track Approvals Bill –Te Kōkiringa Taumata | New Zealand Planning Institute
Friday, 8 March 2024, 9:58 am | NZ Planning Institute
Government has released a Fast Track Approvals Bill, intended to provide fast, one-stop-shop approvals for infrastructure and major projects across seven different pieces of legislation, including the Resource Management Act 1991. The bill is part of the ... More >>
Public Inquiry Into Community-Led Retreat And Adaptation Funding – NZPI / Te Kōkiringa Taumata
Tuesday, 15 August 2023, 2:18 pm | NZ Planning Institute
Government announced plans today for a public inquiry into community-led retreat and adaptation funding. This will mean that the development of the Climate Change Adaptation Bill (CAAB) will be delayed, with a release of a draft not expected till ... More >>
Environment Committee Releases Recommendations On SpatialPlanning And Natural And Built Environments Bills
Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 5:20 pm | NZ Planning Institute
The Environment Select Committee has released their reports on the Spatial Planning and Natural and Built Environment Bills. Te Kōkiringa Taumata | The New Zealand Planning Institute (the Institute) has been waiting for these recommendations and ... More >>
Planners Cautiously Welcome Government’s Fast Track Consenting During COVID-19 Recovery
Tuesday, 5 May 2020, 9:56 am | NZ Planning Institute
The New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI) cautiously welcomes the Government’s announcement of fast-tracked consenting for eligible development and infrastructure projects, but says it is important that environmental and community outcomes are ... More >>
Planners Join Government In Urging Councils To Keep Consenting
Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 3:06 pm | NZ Planning Institute
The lockdown is a prime opportunity for councils to clear any consent backlogs, minimising potential delays to development projects when restrictions end, the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI) said today. “We support the Government’s appeal ... More >>
Creating inclusive cities among top planning challenges
Thursday, 30 January 2020, 9:27 am | NZ Planning Institute
New Zealand needs to up its game on building inclusive cities that reflect our increasingly diverse communities, claims the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI). More >>
Range of measures needed to assess city ‘competitiveness'
Thursday, 9 May 2019, 2:33 pm | NZ Planning Institute
A more comprehensive and holistic set of measures is needed to assess and report on the capability, functionality and ‘health’ of New Zealand’s cities and towns, says the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI). More >>
Community-led urban development recognised at awards
Saturday, 6 April 2019, 2:51 pm | NZ Planning Institute
Christchurch City Council’s community-led revitalisation initiative has achieved the supreme accolade at tonight’s (5 April) New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI) awards. Following the 2010/11 Christchurch earthquakes, the Council has applied a ... More >>
NZPI conference to discuss NZ’s biggest planning issues
Monday, 1 April 2019, 9:27 am | NZ Planning Institute
Urban growth, climate change and water quality are some of the biggest issues facing our planners in 2019, according to the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI). More >>
NZ an ‘innovation lab’ for climate change
Friday, 8 March 2019, 1:53 pm | NZ Planning Institute
New Zealand an ‘innovation lab’ for climate change – international planning expert New Zealand has the opportunity to be a climate change “innovation lab” for the rest of the world, according to international planning expert and former ... More >>
Urban growth, climate change and water quality key issues
Wednesday, 23 January 2019, 11:30 am | NZ Planning Institute
Urban growth, climate change and water quality are some of the biggest issues facing our planners in 2019, according to the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI). More >>
NPDC’s digital draft district plan recognized
Saturday, 24 March 2018, 12:08 pm | NZ Planning Institute
New Plymouth District Council’s trail-blazing work to create digital draft district plan has been recognized with a major award from New Zealand’s top planning body. More >>
NZPI Conference to Tackle Big Planning Issues
Tuesday, 20 March 2018, 4:23 pm | NZ Planning Institute
Water quality and availability, rapid urbanisation, and the impact of natural hazards and climate change are among the top three planning issues to be discussed at the New Zealand Planning Institute’s conference Breaking New Ground held in Tauranga ... More >>
NZPI: Biggest environmental challenges NZ will face in 2018
Monday, 5 February 2018, 9:45 am | NZ Planning Institute
NZPI reveals biggest environmental challenges New Zealand will face in 2018 Water quality and availability, rapid urbanisation, and the impact of natural hazards and climate change are the top three planning issues affecting New Zealand in 2018 and ... More >>
Excellence in disaster response recognised
Saturday, 8 April 2017, 11:38 am | NZ Planning Institute
Excellence in disaster response recognised in national planning awards A joint response to complex planning and technical challenges following the Canterbury Earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 in parts of the Waimakariri District north of Christchurch has achieved ... More >>
RMA reforms, urban development and natural hazards
Sunday, 2 April 2017, 8:19 pm | NZ Planning Institute
RMA reforms, urban development and natural hazards key issues for 2017 – NZPI Resource Management Act reforms, urban development and natural hazards will be the top three planning issues affecting New Zealand in 2017, according to the New Zealand Planning ... More >>
RMA reforms, urban development & natural hazards key issues
Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 2:03 pm | NZ Planning Institute
Resource Management Act reforms, urban development and natural hazards will be the top three planning issues affecting New Zealand in 2017, according to the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI). More >>
NZ to take major role in Pacific Island Planners Association
Tuesday, 25 October 2016, 9:20 am | NZ Planning Institute
Key New Zealand and global experts attending ‘The Planning for Sustainable Development’ conference in Fiji will address central issues facing planners and local and central government practitioners around the world, with a particular focus on the Pacific. More >>
An improved, simplified and streamlined RMA better for all
Monday, 30 November 2015, 3:41 pm | NZ Planning Institute
November 30, 2015 The Resource Legislation Amendment Bill before Parliament this week seeks to simplify and streamline the planning processes which would be good for all Kiwis, the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI) chair Bryce Julyan says. ... More >>
Need for Constructive Solutions on Affordable Housing
Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 1:40 pm | NZ Planning Institute
In a recent set speech the Hon Bill English has once again attributed inequality, poverty and the lack of affordable housing within New Zealand to ‘planners’, citing Auckland as the ‘most evident indication of the problem.’ More >>
