Buying property together? Understanding ownership options
Joint Tenants vs Tenants in Common So, you’ve found the dream home, or at least one you can afford, and you’re buying it with someone else. Whether it’s your partner,…
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…
Uber drivers declared employees
In a marked change from the position adopted by the same court in 2020, the Employment Court on 25 October 2022 found that four Uber drivers were employees, not independent…
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…