I'm not a hipster, but I am curling my lip at this NIMBY hand wringing bollocks that seems to confuse leaky buildings (Building Act, structural integrity of buildings) with district planning (RMA, environmental effects of growth). The AUP is balanced and ...
They can't build more houses even if they wanted to. I don't work in Auckland but even in my area you 1. Cant get builders 2. Cant get engineers 3. Cant get planners. 4. Cant get surveyors. 5. Cant get earthworks and concrete tradies. And so on and so ...
Everyday I thank the lord I don't have to work for Auckland Council. Councils can borrow money cheap through a special LGNZ fund. They don't borrow money to build infrastructure to help scumbag property developers as most are indebted anyway, ratepayers ...
Ex DOC here. They just could not compete with market rates for Planners and after restructuring they didn't want Planners anyway (I was on Band D, hey its gone up!). I will vote for anyone, including Act, that quadruples the DOC budget. Lovely bunch of ...
I'm really sad to see Campbell go. I was never fond of the dancing granny type stories and repeated items about Christchurch gave me compassion fatigue and I would often flick over to the Simpsons to avoid these, but I thought he was a genuine, old school ...
The RMA is not working properly in a number of areas, and there is too much leeway for Councils to write crap, lazziez faire plans that locals, reasonable developers and environmentalists don't have the power, interest or money to challenge. However Part ...
Well, Winston didn't need our votes. We could have voted for the Legalise Cannabis lady :) Always nice to see the Nats do an epic fail, even if it means nothing.
I have misgivings about voting for Winston. He's a loveable rogue but I have never gotten over 1996. However I haven't been able to make a satisfying and hearty fuck you National vote for over 6 years. It feels good to vote for a winner for a change.
Young Nats were infesting my town yesterday, the one with the angry ratepayers. The angry ratepayers think Winston's going to get them out of paying their rates arrears magically somehow, hence the reason Osborne and the strange Young Nat Borg People were ...
Am also a Planner and Lindsey is right. Most consents involve a lot of negotiation before you get to a decision apart from when you just cannot reason with someone. I miss working overseas when I got to decline crap applications all the time with no ...
There was also the incident when a guy from the Animal Health Board had his dog poisoned with 1080 bait when he was sitting on the back of a Ute in Greymouth. They also throw pellets in waterways and on walking tracks and run to the media claiming DOC ...
The 1080 people are absolute f*cking nutters. Having said that, I guess this is a very excellent distraction technique for the govt.
Council can revoke the consent if the Court rules the decision making was faulty, particularly in relation to notification to the neighbours/public. There is case law on this.
No, it doesn't nullify the consent but you can review all conditions relating to mitigation of effects. If there was a condition relating to clearance of vegetation on the site for the building platforms the Council could look at it again if the ...
Section 128 Review of consent conditions by consent authority - http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1991/0069/latest/DLM235230.html Tricky but can be done. Or else the activists can band together and force a judicial review of the decision. I reckon ...
Just saw some idiot GM from Auckland Council on the news saying you can't change resource consent decisions. Obviously he knows bugger all about the RMA. He's really earning his 200K+ salary.
I have reliably heard even National Party in Northland folk don't like Osborne. Why did they pick such a lame duck when the farmer candidate was apparently quite popular? The poll is encouraging, so I will definitely vote for ole Winston. Why these old ...
Hopefully the massive payout Cake Lady got will put off idiot managers from nosing about in staff FB pages and launching totally inappropriate vendettas. Well done Cake Lady!
I agree with that Matthew Hooten guy, much as it pains me. I am sick to death of Labour and the Greens being stubborn and running in important seats they cannot win and splitting the vote. It's not 1990 anymore, be bloody tactical fergodssakes.
I have moved from cosy left wing North Dunedin to Northland recently. Labour doesn't have a chance up here. For once I feel like voting for someone who has a chance of winning so if Winston runs, I'll vote for the wicked old bugger. At least it will piss ...
Agreed. Central Auckland is full of cheap ass ugly buildings. Why not one more? NZ is full of cities and towns in stunning settings with truly shitty urban design. Whangarei, most of Nelson, central Auckland and so on...
I am a Planner and I endorse vto's comment wholeheartedly. I also appreciate what Once Was Pete is saying as well, but would venture most of his problems stem from the LGA and infrastructure and development contributions boffins, not Planners :) I wonder ...
Shearer should have stayed as leader. Sure he doesn't have the killer instinct but hes the kind of politician you can have a beer with a la Key, and people like that. No one gives a shite who wins political debates or scores points.
This is dire people. I'm glad I'm middle aged, well off and highly cynical. If I was still a young idealistic student I'd be raging about now. Now I'll just have a big wine instead.
Voting tomorrow as in the middle of moving from one end of the country to the other. You don't need an Easyvote card to vote early, nor is it counted as a special. Going to be Labour/Labour and Greens/Labour for us :)
I was expecting more of a Tory smarm fest from Hosking. He was actually not bad. Perhaps he was scared of being mocked on Hauraki tomorrow morning. The poll was rigged as always. It reminds me of that episode of the Simpsons where Homer tries to vote for ...
Cunliffe is way more feisty than poor old Phil Goff, when he gets a word in edgeways. Man Key is full of shit, I still don't understand how even stupid people can't see how shifty and shallow he is.
When has NZ politics been this car crash fascinating? And I thought this election was going to be a boring Nat walkover smugfest. I feel we should all buy Mr Hager a beer. This Twitter stuff must mean that heads will roll now, surely? How can that nice Mr ...
The owner of Soho and Motutapu Stations is at least partially resident in NZ and has been for a few years, so its bloody disingenuous to use his covenant as an example of good foreign ownership. He's also a keen conservationist, unlike raping and pillaging...
The All Blacks are a bunch of smug, overrated, inarticulate bores so having that wanker 'shopped into the their team to win more votes from munters is rather fitting. A country gets the government it deserves, someone wise said once.
I don't understand the appeal of this crap at all, but one possible reason for the proliferation of party pills and now fake weed is that actual drugs (apart from real weed) have always been quite difficult to buy in NZ. When I did my OE over a decade ago ...
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