by Ben Addington | Apr 20, 2020 | Laws and Regulations, Local Government, Planning
Under Alert Levels 3 and 4 many people will be working from home. But there are rules for this! Most District and City Plans will have requirements to manage the effects generated by working from home activities. This is just one area that the full consequences of the...
by Ben Addington | Mar 2, 2020 | Laws and Regulations, Local Government, Planning, Sustainability, Waste
I’ve been really interested in recent work around waste minimisation and in particular The Truth About Plastics Recycling report by WasteMINZ. It highlights the three principles of the circular economy: Design out waste and pollution Keep products and materials...
by Ben Addington | Jan 22, 2020 | Housing, Laws and Regulations, Planning
The Christchurch City Council is proposing to regulate what they call ‘home share accommodation’ through the District Plan. This approach presumes that the resource management issue is a land use problem, when in reality it’s a technology problem. Defining...
