Challenges, results, and community support of the first catchment plan change to go through an Environmental Protection Agency process were shared with the nation yesterday.
To a crowd of central government members, staff from primary production groups, and councils from around the country, Hawke's Bay Regional Council group manager strategic development James Palmer discussed the Tukituki Plan Change 6, and the TANK collaborative process.
Yesterday was the first in the three-day annual national conference of the New Zealand Association of Resource Management.
Hosted in a different region each year, attendees have flocked to Hawke's Bay, where this year's conference is hosted at the Mission Estate.
With the theme of building resilience, yesterday Mr Palmer's discussion was one attendees enjoyed in a number of sessions discussing frameworks, policy, personal and community resilience.