Resource management system reform
The Government is repealing the Resource Management Act (1991) and enacting new laws to transform the way we manage the environment.
Our future resource management system: November 2022
These documents accompanied the introduction of the Spatial Planning Bill and Natural and Built Environment Bill to Parliament in November 2022.
Our Future Resource Management System: overview
Our Future Resource Management System: the need for change
Supplementary Analysis Report: the new resource management system
Exposure draft of the Natural and Built Environment Bill: June – November 2021
In recognition of the significance of this reform, the Government released an exposure draft of the Natural and Built Environment Bill in June 2021. This provided an opportunity for the public to give feedback on a partial draft of the Bill. The exposure draft had its own select committee process which reported back in November 2021.
Parliamentary paper on the exposure draft of the Natural and Built Environment Bill
Exposure draft of the Natural and Built Environment Bill
Summary of initial impact analysis
Interim regulatory impact statement
Select committee report on the exposure draft inquiry
Expert review into the Resource Management Act led by Hon Tony Randerson KC: July 2019 – June 2020
The reform of the resource management system is based on an expert review into the Resource Management Act, which was led by retired Court of Appeal judge Hon Tony Randerson KC.
New directions for resource management in New Zealand
New directions for resource management in New Zealand: summary and key recommendations
Cabinet papers
14 December 2020: Cabinet paper proposing the repeal and replacement of the RMA
Fact sheets
Resource management reform: An overview
Resource management reform: The Spatial Planning Act
Resource management reform: The Natural and Built Environment Act
Resource management reform: Protecting the environment
Resource management reform: Development, infrastructure and efficiency
Resource management reform: A more effective role for Māori
Resource management reform: Roles and decision making in the future system
Ministerial Oversight Group (MOG) papers
Agendas and minutes of the RM Reform Ministerial Oversight Group
Beehive releases
Notes of an address to the Environmental Defence Society Conference, Auckland