Material Matters: Government looks to shoulder more building liability burdens

Material Matters: Government looks to shoulder more building liability burdens
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Dileepa Fonseka
Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says the Government wants to take on some of the liabilities councils typically carry as building consent authorities. Penk told BusinessDesk that the Government was increasingly sending directions to councils regarding the materials and processes they wanted them to approve in order to build more housing, and it was only fair for the central government to shoulder the liability burden from some of those decisions.“It is an active discussion at the moment within government, and I think in...

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