Ten years on, a seven-year plan to standardise local government planning documents

Ten years on, a seven-year plan to standardise local government planning documents
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie June 6 (BusinessDesk) - Environment Minister David Parker has unveiled the all-but-final version of a template to make local governments' planning documents far easier to understand - a process that has so far taken a decade and will have seven years to go before being fully implemented, if the Draft National Planning Standards go ahead as proposed. At a function in the office of Wellington mayor Justin Lester, Parker admitted he'd first discussed the need for such reform a decade ago when he served briefly in the envi...