Viewfinder: RMA reform – Regulatory relief broadly opposed by submitters

Resource management, from the protection of freshwater to the development of power plants, is set for a total legislative overhaul. (Image: NZME)The new resource management system’s novel “regulatory relief” scheme has been broadly opposed by organisations that submitted on legislation being debated in the House last week.A BusinessDesk analysis of submissions on the Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill shows that, of 341 organisations that expressed a view on the regulatory relief scheme during the select committee process, a majority, 272, opposed or conditionally opposed regulatory relief.Some 56 expressed conditional support for this aspect of the incoming la...