Bill Loutit

1 month ago | lexology.com | Bill Loutit |Sarah Mitchell |Matt Conway |Sarah Scott |Hamish Harwood |Rachel Abraha

If you missed out on having a project listed in the Fast-track Approvals Act 2024 (Act), or you didn’t apply, you can still use the fast-track process as long as you can demonstrate your project will bring ‘significant regional or national benefits’. There are two pathways to use the Act to fast track a project: the first is to be a listed project in Schedule 2, the second is applying to be a ‘referred project’.

Oct 21, 2024 | lexology.com | Hamish Harwood |Sally Mckechnie |Bill Loutit |Matt Conway |Mike Wakefield |Padraig McNamara | +4 more

The Fast Track Approvals Bill (the FTAB) has emerged from the Environment Select Committee with wholesale changes throughout. Some of the main changes have already been foreshadowed, others not. A selection of the key changes are summarised and discussed below. We will provide more detailed analysis of the FTAB in the coming weeks that will be posted on our Fast-track resource centre which is available here.

Oct 15, 2024 | lexology.com | Greg Allen |Bill Loutit |Donna Hurley |Graeme Palmer |Hamish Harwood |Judith Cheyne | +11 more

The recent release of the report arising from the Finance and Expenditure Committee’s Inquiry into Climate Adaptation (Adaptation Report) provides some welcome direction for the future management of the impacts of climate change on buildings and land.

Apr 15, 2024 | lexology.com | Gerald Lanning |Bill Loutit |Matt Conway |Mike Wakefield |Sarah Mitchell |Sarah Scott | +1 more

The Supreme Court decision in Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Inc v New Zealand Transport Agency, released at the end of last week, found that the Board of Inquiry (BOI) misinterpreted the relevant RMA provisions when granting consent to the East-West Link (EWL) project, and that the High Court erred in dismissing appeals against the BOI’s decision.

Apr 11, 2024 | lexology.com | Sally Mckechnie |Hamish Harwood |Bill Loutit |Matt Conway |Mike Wakefield |Sarah Scott | +1 more

Much has been written about the Fast-track Approvals Bill since it was released a few weeks ago and much of the commentary has focused on resource consents and the intended “Fast Track” elements of the Bill.  This update puts the focus on the “one-stop” shop process created by the Bill, which is intended to lead to better coordination and timely decisions for various Crown permits and approvals (alongside the RMA processes).