Tag: RMA

Far from ‘streamlining and simplifying’, the Government’s Resource Management Act (RMA) reforms will mean more bureaucracy and skyrocketing costs for local councils and ratepayers. “The Government wants to eliminate protection for trees by making it too expensive to protect them,” Green Party Auckland MP Keith Locke said today. The proposed law change means that every council will have to individually list each tree it wants to protect in its council plan, rather than protecting them in groups.