Election year:
2023
Political party:
Act
Associated politicians:
Policy:
Housing
- Restrict the right to object to neighbours who are directly affected by the project
- Allow neighbourhoods to vote to exempt themselves from many planning rules
- Create a new Planning Tribunal to determine compensation for affected neighbours who hold out from negotiations to loosen planning rules
- Reduce the need for consents when infrastructure projects use a Code of Practice to manage environmental effects, saving billions of dollars and reducing years of delay.
- Comprehensively overhaul Resource Management laws based on property rights.
- Shake up infrastructure funding, including sharing over a billion dollars of GST revenue with local councils based on their building consent activity and allowing targeted rates to fund infrastructure on new developments.
- Allow builders to opt out of the council building consent regime so that they can use more innovative techniques and materials to improve affordability and quality.
- Use building insurance as an alternative to building consent authorities.
- Use Codes of Practice to reduce the need for consents, saving time and money.
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