Minister for Resource Management Reform and Infrastructure Chris Bishop and ACT's Simon Court had just delivered a speech to hundreds of resource management lawyers at their annual conference.

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Government will unveil its replacement to the Resource Management Act (RMA) today, fulfilling a promise that’s been in the works for more than a decade. The legislation will be introduced ...

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 ...