A new government task-force has been announced to " weed out pedantic and unnecessary rules that frustrate property owners and councils alike".
What chance does this have?
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portunus: The Resource Management Act (RMA) was passed by National in 1991... they have had over 15 years to repeal/amend it if they really didn't want it. My guess is that any changes will only be minor.
I suspect the reason things are so expensive with councils now is when the leaky building crisis most people turned to taking the council to court as the "last man standing" for signing off on the building in the first place. So now the compliance costs are super high so that if anything happens later down the line the council can prove it wasn't anything wrong on their end. I guess this thinking comes from people saying "the council should pay" or "the government should pay" forgetting what they are really saying is "the rate payers should pay" or "the tax payer should pay".
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