RMA backdown?

If this is accurate it is good news for the RMA and good news for NZ…

Key to ‘rip up’ RMA plans

Prime Minister John Key says there is no doubt the Government will have to go back to the drawing board on its Resource Management Act changes following the Northland by-election loss.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters’ win in the weekend by-election means the number of National MPs will drop to 59.

Only ACT leader David Seymour supported suported proposed changes to sections six and seven of the RMA, so the government no longer has a majority for that proposal.

“There’s just no question that you’ve got to rip up what we’ve got now, go back to the drawing board and have another go,” Mr Key told Morning Report. …

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