NORTHERN ADVOCATE By Alexandra Newlove 3:30 PM Friday Jun 17, 2016 Outstanding has become a dirty word to some as Northland councils formulate rules that will restrict development on land deemed visually significant. About 2000 property owners in Whangarei and hundreds more in Kaipara and the Far North were affected … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Outstanding landscape maps
To find out if your property has Outstanding Landscapes or Outstanding Natural Features, click the following link to the NRC maps: http://gis.nrc.govt.nz/LocalMaps-Viewer/ For questions about these maps please contact the NRC directly, Ph (09) 470 1200.
Letterbox flyers
Our first distribution of flyers about Plan Change 114 Landscapes is hitting letterboxes now. We have already received a large number of requests to be added to our mailing list. Thank you to everyone who has responded.
Property politics by Frank Newman
The general election is more than a year away but the battle lines are already forming. Two combatants, Labour and the Greens, have entered into a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together with the simple objective of ousting National from the treasury benches. It creates an interesting dynamic, given NZ First has repeated its view that it would not be part of a coalition that involved the Greens.
Now that Labour has stated a clear preference for the Greens, it makes a post-election coalition arrangement between Labour and NZ First less likely. NZ First also has a hard-line against working with the Maori Party (and any other party, which includes the Greens, that wants to put the Treaty of Waitangi as the core of our constitutional arrangements) so it is fast running out of dance partners; although it appears content to dance alone! The outcome of the next general election is already becoming set in stone, but more on that later.
If a Labour-Green coalition were to gain power, what would it mean for property investors? Continue reading