Article tagged with 'planning'
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New rules: 3 houses of 3 storeys – no resource consent
19 Oct 2021 - Environment Minister David Parker has unveiled a cutting of red tape to boost housing supply.
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FMA publishes annual corporate plan
19 Jul 2021 - The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has today published its Annual Corporate Plan, which sets out the FMA’s activities for 2020/21 that will promote the regulator’s strategic priorities, address regulatory risks and harms, and deliver sector outcomes.
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Book excerpt: Financial Freedom - 5 Steps 5 Years
06 Jan 2020 - Property investment is the way to financial freedom, argues property investment mentor Lucia Xiao* in her new book which aims to help people take control of their lives. Here’s an excerpt from her book…
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New infrastructure funding tool announced
16 Dec 2019 - Funding for infrastructure in new developments has long been a bottleneck in the drive to boosting housing supply so the Government is introducing a new tool to address the problem.
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New Government housing agency established
20 Sep 2019 - It’s official: the Government’s new urban development and housing authority, Kāinga Ora, has been given the go-ahead after the necessary legislation passed its third reading in Parliament this week.
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Govt makes KiwiBuild loans easier, drops 100,000 homes target
04 Sep 2019 - The government is dropping its target to build 100,000 affordable homes over a decade but will keep the name of its troubled flagship policy - KiwiBuild - while making it easier for people to finance their way into home ownership through the scheme. [READ ON] It’s back again! Th...
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Govt opts for sweeping review of 'underperforming' RMA
24 Jul 2019 - A sweeping review of the Resource Management Act opens the way to splitting the law relating to environmental protection and urban development back into two separate pieces of legislation as Environment Minister David Parker concedes the 28-year-old law needs a total overhaul.