Description
We’re in the midst of the most significant resource management reforms since the early 90s. There’s broad agreement that the current system isn’t working. It’s failing our economy and the environment. But what does a “property rights-based regime” mean in practice and how will it affect you and your business?
This Webinar will help you make sense of the two new pieces of legislation that will replace the Resource Management Act this parliamentary term. The Bills have just passed the Select Committee process, and most commentators agree that the Select Committee’s changes have strongly favoured the economy over the environment.
The Planning Act will implement the coalition government’s new economic growth focused planning regime. Making planning and consenting easier and cheaper. Environmental protection will now sit in a separate Natural Environment Act. This webinar will explain:
- How the two pieces of legislation are intended to work together;
- The new policy direction and how it differs from the current regime;
- What the Select Committee has changed;
- How the changes might affect you and your business;
- What happens during the transitional period and key milestones;
- What might happen if there is a change of government;
- The triple whammy of RMA, local government, and three waters reform
LEARNING OUTCOMES
A clear understanding of what the new legislation covers, what the Select Committee has changed, what the next steps look like, and how the new regime might affect them and their businesses, including during the long transitional period.
SUITED TO
Lawyers, business advisers, business owners, property developers.
PRESENTER
Mary Hill Barrister, Kate Sheppard Chambers
Mary Hill is a specialist resource management and local government barrister with over 25 year’s experience. Previously a partner at Tauranga firm Cooney Lees Morgan, she joined the independent bar in 2025.
A former President of the Resource Management Law Association, Mary has been closely involved in the reform process. She sits on the Law Society’s Environment Committee and presented the Law Society’s submission on the reform Bills to the Select Committee.