Everybody hates the RMA, but will we be happy now?

Everybody hates the RMA, but will we be happy now?
Policy geeks' paradise: David Parker (left) and Tony Randerson unveil RMA reform proposals in mid-2020. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Pattrick Smellie
For anyone who ever took up the catch-cry of “reform the RMA”, today is a red-letter day.After five years’ gestation, the two bills to replace the 31-year-old Resource Management Act will finally be tabled in parliament. They are the Natural and Built Environments Bill, and the Spatial Planning Bill.Their patient legislative midwife, environment minister David Parker, has shown rare stamina in getting to this point.The project has been under way since Labour was elected to lead a government in late 2017 – and finally the...

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