The NZPI welcomes the opportunity to contribute to Ministry for Environment early thinking in the design of a potential National Policy Statement to: "provide direction to local authorities on residential and business development capacity in plans and policy statements to enable growth and change in urban areas".
The NZPI submission can be seen here:
It responds to these MfE questions:
NZPI recognises that this MfE initiative overlaps with MfE's Bill to change the Resource Management Act, and also with the Productivity Commission's "first principles" review of NZ's urban planning system. It's all go on the submission front right now. See it here
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