Padraig McNamara

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.

May 7, 2024 | lexology.com | Edward Norman |Josh Cairns |Mike Wakefield |Padraig McNamara |Jonathan Salter |Katie Daly

Local government shoulders a significant burden in the provision of infrastructure in New Zealand. As attention on the national infrastructure deficit in New Zealand grows, so too does the discussion as to whether the current local government funding and financing model will be able to support the growing national infrastructure pipeline.

Mar 8, 2024 | lexology.com | Sally Mckechnie |Hamish Harwood |Bill Loutit |Matt Conway |Mike Wakefield |Padraig McNamara | +2 more

The Fast-Track Approvals Bill (Bill) was introduced into the house yesterday, just within the 100-day commitment. The Bill is ambitious in its intent. It builds on the previous government’s Covid-19 Fast-track consenting regime by creating a “one-stop-shop” for consents and other regulatory approvals for projects. Selection of a project into the regime is by Parliament or Ministerial referral. In this legal update, we take an initial look at the Bill.

Nov 24, 2023 | lexology.com | Hamish Harwood |Matt Conway |Mike Wakefield |Padraig McNamara |Sally Mckechnie |Sarah Mitchell | +2 more

Chris Bishop said that the Resource Management Act’s (RMA) replacement legislation would “be gone by Christmas”. That ideology was common to all three of the coalition parties and the replacement legislation will be repealed. The coalition negotiations have produced a Christmas present for proponents of large projects: a fast-track one stop-shop consenting and permitting process; to borrow the Canadian tag “One Project: One Process”.