Tag: advocacy

Advocacy in Action: June 2022

As we hit the middle of 2022, the Advocacy Team has also hit our stride, consulting, drafting and campaigning on 22 submissions in just five months. We owe a debt […]

Budget 2022: The Lockup Lowdown

Head of Advocacy, Katherine Wilson attended today’s budget lock-up and gives you the run-down of what is in Budget 2022. Today’s budget is all about economic security, with focussed spending […]

Advocacy in Action | May 2022

We are coming to the end of Annual Plan season with an almighty 11 submissions made by our team of three in as many weeks.  This is a critical piece […]

Advocacy in Action: Tis the season to be…jolly?

It is Annual Plan season, which is basically like Christmas for our advocacy team as it is our busiest time of the year. Over the next four to six weeks, […]

Proposed model for assessing embodied carbon of new buildings released

MEMBER-ONLY CONTENT On Wednesday 16 March, the Ministry for Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) released its whole-of-life embodied carbon assessment – technical methodology. This content is for members only Join […]

What does value capture actually mean?

You might have heard whispers of the government potentially introducing a ‘value capture’ scheme to help fund Auckland Light Rail. Like many advocacy topics, policy developments in one part of […]

Leonie Freeman: The Art of Advocacy

In late 2021, Property Council’s advocacy team circulated a survey to members asking them to rank the top local and national priorities for us to work on in 2022. The […]

What will our future resource management system look like?

The Ministry for the Environment has released a discussion document on our future resource management system. The discussion document indicates that the Spatial Planning Act will mandate regional spatial planning […]

Value Capture back on the agenda

Property Council was fortunate to attend the recent ministerial announcement of the future of Auckland Light Rail, where we heard firsthand from Minister Robertson and Woods of the government’s intention […]

How will the RMA Amendment Bill and NPS on Urban Development work together?

The advocacy team have been extraordinarily busy this month, with five submissions made on topics such as transitioning to a low-emissions economy, the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other […]