Yesterday the report back to Parliament of the Local Government and Environment Select Committee report on the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Bill was released.

The report recommends changes in some important areas to the Bill as originally tabled. Set out below is a Green Party email outlining some of the changes. These matters will be discussed in more detail on the blog as time permits.

The EDS website,  http://www.eds.org.nz/content/documents/pressreleases/Report%20Back%20-%20Streamlining%20%26%20Simplifying.pdf provides  a copuy of the report and some useful information as do Central government sites: http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/minister+welcomes+resource+management+bill+report-back

Alexandra Redoubt

A fascinating element of the field trip referred to in the previous blog, was the opportunity to delve into the cultural history of the Waipa District. Led by Chuck Davis, iwi liaison officer for the Council we visited a wealth of pa, battlesites, fortification lines, redoubts and other such places in which repose the memories of past events and lives lived and spent.