Resource Consents
The acquaculture frontier off Marlborough that could earn billions
The country's first open ocean fish farm could bring in billions - but the company behind it is running into objections, largely by locals not impressed by its levels of compliance elsewhere. Audio
The acquaculture frontier off Marlborough that could earn billions
The country's first open ocean fish farm could bring in billions - but the company behind it is running into objections, largely by locals not impressed by its levels of compliance elsewhere.
AudioAuckland Council may not be obliged to fix consent mistake
Auckland Council identified 430 resource consents it unlawfully issued after lawyer Allan Webb brought the consenting bungle to the council's attention. He talks to Zac Fleming. Audio
Auckland Council resource consent bungle 'a huge pain' - lawyer
A lawyer isn't surprised by Auckland Council bungling hundreds of resource consents because, she says, the city's planning rules are so complicated. The council is contacting 430 property owners to… Audio
Auckland Council bungles 430 resource consents
Hundreds of Auckland homeowners could be forced to go back to the drawing board to get new resource consents, after the Auckland Council admitted it misinterpreted its own rules. Video, Audio
Kim Mehlhopt's nightmare neighbour
A Christchurch woman has lost almost four hours of sunlight because of the height of the units put up next door. She had little to no warning about the construction of the townhouses. Audio
Councils free to sell resource consent, PM says
As Ashburton sells a resource consent to extract up to 45 litres of water per second from the town's aquifers, Prime Minister John Key says the council does not own the water itself. Video, Audio
36 percent Canterbury dairy farms non-compliant
More than a third of Canterbury dairy farmers are breaking their resource consents, and the number of warning notices they got last dairying season nearly tripled. Audio
Auckland Council served Salters Cartage with abatement notice
More now on the abatement notice Auckland Council served Salters Cartage last month before the deadly expolosion. Audio