Workshops

This workshop will explore topical issues around biodiversity protection in New Zealand, including:

• Regulatory capture and environmental law - risks and mitigations; and
• whether institutional capacity/settings for offsets and compensation in NZ are sufficiently advanced - and whether more formalised market-based schemes such as biobanking could risk entrenching further biodiversity declines.

Presenters
Dr Marie Doole - Director, Mātaki Environmental
Dr Fleur Maseyk - General Manager Conservation Scientist, The Catalyst Group
Sarah Ongley - Barrister, Kate Sheppard Chambers
Erika Toleman - Acting General Counsel, Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society

A RMLA Conference staple: This workshop will provide attendees with an overview of and the opportunity to discuss recent and significant cases involving key environmental and resource management matters.

Presenters
Mike Doesburg - Partner, Wynn Williams
Lucy de Latour - Partner, Wynn Williams

This workshop explores the benefits of using PPPs to deliver community infrastructure, NP Partners combines public and private sector talent and effort to identify then source investment for innovative, value-driven, future-focused projects and initiatives that will enhance the appeal and quality of life in Ngāmotu-New Plymouth and across the Taranaki region. In this workshop you’ll hear about the vision and mechanics of this innovative public/private partnership and have a chance to discuss some of exciting projects and initiatives such as Destination Play.

Presenters
John Leuthart - Lead, NP Partners
Kelvin Wright - Chief Executive, Te Puna Umanga Venture Taranaki
Gareth Green - Chief Executive, New Plymouth District Council

Come and join our panel of speakers to dive deeper into the proposed reforms to replace the RMA (1991). This interactive session, informed by a panel discussion, will explore some of the key concepts being considered for Phase 3 of the RM Reform programme and what these reforms might ultimately look like. The Panel will kick off the conversation by exploring key questions that get to the heart of how the system may be designed by the Government. What does a system based on private property rights look like in practice? Should the scope of the resource management system be scaled back and how? Does the new system need additional tools to help manage catchment level environmental impacts such as greater use of economic instruments? How might greater use of standards enable a more efficient and certain system for consent applicants? The feedback gathered from this session will be provided to Government to help inform policy development.

This workshop will now be held on Friday 20 September from 1.45pm

Presenters
David Curtis - NZPI
Mary Hill - Cooney Lees Morgan
Greg Severinsen - ENGO
Kristina Healy - Mercury
Dion Luke - Te Aranga (Ngā Iwi o Taranaki)

Learn about the latest international trends and innovations in planning processes, the potential for new tools and technology to improve plan efficiency and transparency and the digital competencies that resource management practitioners will need. Attendees will also hear from planners that worked on the Proposed New Plymouth District Plan (the first e-plan in New Zealand to be notified under the National Planning Standards 2019) who will share their learnings and some practical insights on the issues and challenges that arose from using this new technology. Planners and iwi/hapū representatives will also discuss the innovative process that was adopted to create one of the most culturally integrated district plans in New Zealand.

Presenters
Christine Coste - Planner/Director, RMA Digital and Chair, PlanTechNZ
Ashleigh Gulliver - Planning Advisor, New Plymouth District Council
Sarah Edwards - Associate, Mitchell Daysh
Sarah Mako - Pou Taiao, Te Kotahitanga o Te Atiawa Trust

Is strong collaborative and spatially-driven planning needed if New Zealand is to better protect the environment while simultaneously overcoming its infrastructure deficit? Does NZ need a national spatial plan? This panel session will canvass the pros and cons of spatial planning and how to design and deliver a successful spatial planning process built on collaboration. By learning from past examples, and looking forward to new resource management legislation, the session will explore how councils, central government, tangata whenua, communities and industry can better work together to future-proof local planning systems.

Presenters
Tina Porou - Founder, Poipoia
Sean Audain - Strategic Planning Manager, Wellington City Council
Tim Church - Urban Designer and Partner, Boffa Miskell
Renee Davies - Manager of Strategic Planning, New Plymouth District Council