Environmental law Archives

Natural Built Environment and Spatial Planning Bills now introduced to Parliament

Yesterday, 15 November 2022, both the Spatial Planning Bill (SP) and the Natural and Built Environment Bill (NBE) were introduced to Parliament. These bills are two of three sister pieces…

Affected persons and written approvals

Affected persons are persons (including companies, partnerships, trusts and so on) that might be affected by a proposed activity requiring consent. The definition of affected person is found in the…

Making consenting easy

Consents may be a necessary requirement for you to do what you want to do. It is important to front load your planning process and secure quality advice before you…

Owners liability and the RMA

The Resource Management Act 1991 sets out how Councils develop plans, how consents are granted and importantly how people are held responsible when they do not comply with the RMA,…

Environmental law – notifications

One of the early matters a planner must attend to when they receive an application for consent is to determine whether it should be non-notified, limited notified or publicly notified. …

Environmental law – transfer of consents

An often forgotten fish hook in business and land transactions is ensuring transfer of any consents required for your activity to take place. This can be something as straightforward as…

Environmental law – Resource consent lapse dates

Resource Consents have lapse dates. These dates are very important. If you haven’t started the activity and fulfilled all the conditions of consent that ensured your activity was set up…

Environmental law – Replacement consents and expiry dates

Resource consents are required to ensure the activity you want to do is carried out in a way that looks after you, the environment and those around you. Not everything…

Environmental Law – an introduction

There has always been a tension between the way we interact with the world for our benefit and how we should interact with the world to avoid the detriment of…