The man appointed to oversee Gisborne District Council’s land management resource management processes has raised concerns over whether the council’s processes are fit for purpose, its “hasty” approach to proposed regulatory plan changes and continued lack of engagement with iwi.
Following last year’s Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use in Tairāwhiti, ministerial Resource Management...
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“I consider that there is a need to review the capabilities of GDC to complete these planning tasks given the resource shortages and the lack of clear engagement with the key stakeholders to date,” Mr Campbell said.
Has he not considered that council is not the main player in future planning?
Surely the citizens should be planning their own future directions.
Council is about maintaining safe and functional basic services.
Boring but that is what we pay our rates for.
We don't pay our rates for expensive council investigations of projects that we haven't even asked for.
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