Impacts on existing-use rights to resources, Ministerial powers, and a diminished ability to take into account local circumstances in decision-making could make the Spatial Planning Bill less successful as a successor to the Resource Management Act, BusinessNZ says.
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‘Protection of the environment' trumps 'development needs' in the Natural and Built Environment Bill, and key terms are undefined, making the Bill unlikely to improve on the performance of the Resource Management Act in providing for both environmental protection and development needs....
BusinessNZ’s submission recommends that the New Zealand Reserve Bank operate with the single objective of price stability, given the potential for multiple objectives to reduce the priority given to price stability in the NZ economy.
...BusinessNZ’s submission to MBIE makes the case for open, simple, permissive immigration settings and an ability to attract talent to come and work in New Zealand, to best support the skills needs of the export sector.
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