Regional councils want greater certainty and bipartisanship on regulations, as they gear up for an expected spate of rule ...

The Government is opening public consultation on what it says amounts to the biggest changes in New Zealand history to ...

Tairāwhiti environmentalists have called changes for commercial forestry under proposed Resource Management Act reforms “a ...

Way back in 1991, the then-National government passed the Resource Management Act. It legislates for the sustainable usage of land, water, and air resources, and is probably the most significant ...

They make changes to national directions, which are rules and policies found under the Resource Management Act (RMA) that inform how councils develop and implement local plans and rules.

Cabinet has agreed the high-level principles for the system which will replace the Resource Management Act. In a moment, I will go through the details of the new system and next steps. But first I ...

The government says its new replacement for the Resource Management Act will cut administrative and compliance costs by 45 percent. The government will look to progress its reforms, introducing ...

the Resource Management Act (RMA) has long been dogged by claims of unnecessary and inefficient rules that strangle innovation and progress. The subject of any number of reviews since its ...

An appeal heard yesterday has the potential to throw open the gates for hundreds of appeals against Resource Management Act (RMA) prosecutions. Rendering company Wallace Corporation and two of its ...