The Local Government Resource Management Reform Steering Group is currently consulting on how to better enable local democratic input and accountability in the future resource management system. Feedback should be provided by 15 March 2022. Taituarā invites you to join us online for an opportunity to ask the Steering Group members any questions you have on 24 February 2022.
Read the report on the Ministry for the Environment website.
Reform objectives for the future of the resource management system include improving system efficiency and effectiveness and reducing complexity, while also retaining local democratic input. There is an opportunity at the current stage of the reform programme for local government to provide some thinking and advice to inform how the latter objective can be meaningfully achieved.
The Local Government Resource Management Reform Steering Group (SG) established a sub-committee to develop advice for consideration by the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) to specifically address how local democratic input, accountability and legitimacy can be built into the reform proposals and plan-making processes. The SG anticipates that this advice could be drawn on by MfE as community engagement aspects of the proposed plan-making process are further developed.
The report linked to above presents two key additions to the proposed design of the new planning system – a bottom-up mechanism established in the Natural and Built Environments Act (NBA) for local communities to be able to have their voice heard in development of natural and built environments plans (NBA plans) and regional spatial strategies (RSSs) (developed under the Strategic Planning Act); and a top-down National Spatial Strategy to sit alongside the National Planning Framework.
Watch our webinar
We encourage you watch the recording below which was recorded during our Boosting local voice in the new Resource Management System webinar on 24 February 2022. This was an opportunity for participants to ask the Local Government Resource Management Steering Group any questions they had.
Get in touch
If you have any questions regarding the resource management reform process, please contact Kath Ross, General Manager, Strategy and Reform.