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December 20, 2020 by admin

The Tuesday Club at Smash Palace Christchurch

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The Tuesday Club at Smash Palace Christchurch

Where the no-mans-land exists between central and local government is difficult to locate right now. This isn’t an equal debate. Local government is a creature established through rules set by central government. Central government is driving the debates wearing jack boots. This is not a discourse between equals. The minister of local government regularly demonstrates that right now.

This government seems committed to remove the “local” from government. In an article in Newsroom it was reported this week that yet another minister announced that: It (the government) has two parallel work streams to seize control of housing regulation from local authorities. This has been larg...

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...Several territorial local authorities have experimented with permissive urban intensification controls across suburbs and neighbourhoods and have unfortunately learnt the hard way how unsatisfactory such controls are in practice without appropriate ‘checks and balances’ and the long‐term legacy they leave behind....

Remember a few weeks ago how Megan Woods and Judith Collins stood proudly, side by side, and announced a Bill which would be promoted by both the Labour and National. This would allow three storeys of housing on a site as of right? Well, the Bill is now in parliament, and it has been slammed […]

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The river is being “impeded and manipulated” beyond what was anticipated in the water conservation order – a legal instrument, setting strict management conditions for the Rakaia, described by environmentalists as being like a national park for rivers...

A few weeks ago, in yet another excellent article, David Williams of Newsroom wrote an article on how a report which had been prepared within Ecan had been buried. Here’s the first few paragraphs: Canterbury’s oft-criticised water regulator, ECan, is being accused of hiding a damning report whic...

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The Tuesday Club at Smash Palace Christchurch

Join us in signing this petition to remove library fines

Fines for overdue items could soon be ditched across Christchurch’s public library network… Sign petition below Pressure is mounting on the city council to join the growing number of local authorities across New Zealand that have already abolished their fines regime. Read more and watch video wi...

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