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What submitters say about Anna Mowbray, Ali Williams' helipad application

All 1397 public submissions are out: 91% or 1277 opposed, 108 supporting, 12 are neutral.

Inside Xero co-founder’s four-year battle to build $50m golf course

Hamish Edwards can finally build his dream golf course in Ōhau after a four-year delay.

Canterbury farmers ask MPs to cut red tape

Minister Nicola Grigg acknowledged that farmers were 'burdened' by paperwork.

Moerewa drainage concerns reignited by laundromat consent process

Hapū worry about greywater impacting the environment and local water supply.

Legal bid to halt sewerage pipe works fails in Environment Court

The decision comes less than two weeks since an urgent hearing.

Farmers fined $77k for discharging effluent into stream

Judge Tepania noted both defendants were careless for different reasons.

Matthew Hooton: RMA finally being fixed after 30 wasted years

OPINION: Chris Bishop built a team that has succeeded where his predecessors failed.

Editorial: Finally, a plan to fix our broken RMA

OPINION: The RMA has represented the worst of this country’s bad regulation.

Pumice quarry owners, land owner fined $272k for consent breaches

Paengaroa pumice quarry and landowner fined $272,000 for resource consent breaches.

‘Frankly ludicrous’: Rusting oil tank has same heritage protection as Parliament

Proposed new legislation aims to make it easier to delist heritage buildings.

Auckland Council drops charge as star witness vanishes in Waiheke vineyard case

The witness's mystery disappearance was linked to an 'employment issue'.

Exploration of the psychological trauma of White Island burn victims | NZ Herald News Update

Exploration of the psychological trauma of White Island burn victims, effectiveness of flu medicine in doubt and calls for vegetable growing to be under the Resource Management Act

Mike Fuge: Bureaucratic delays hinder NZ’s renewable energy progress

OPINION: Contact Energy calls for faster action in push for renewable power.

Fast-track legislation stirs up opponents of Northland sand mining plan

Allowing a firm to apply for fast-tracked consent to mine sand has galvanised opposition.

Patrick Phelps: Māori, mining and exploitation

OPINION: Māori excel in mining.

'If you don't have money, don't bother': One man's battle for justice over rent-free debacle

Neil Cameron's fight involved the Tenancy and Disputes Tribunals and the district court.