RMA Efficiencies Options

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Efficiency incentives proposed for RMA - 19 February

Environment Minister Dr Nick Smith today released details of the regulations for consultation.
"Last year's report on resource consent processing identified that 31% of resource consents were processed late and another 28% involved an extension of time," Dr Smith said. "The report also identified that this problem had got progressively worse over the last decade. The plan is to introduce Council discounts for late consenst with progressive increase in discount over time, hopefully to be introduced 1 July 2010.
For Full release see HERE