Here's an extraordinary figure from Stats NZ -- the number of dwellings consented per 1,000 residents in the year to September.

3.1 - Clutha district
3.2 - Waitaki district
3.6 - Dunedin
33.7 - Queenstown

While QT's building boom suits property developers and governments reliant on eternal growth, the area's infrastructure is already struggling and the Council is pumping semi-treated sewage into the Kawarau river every day.

Queenstown is on track to become New Zealand's most polluted traffic jam.

https://archive.ph/nbzAJ#selection-1403.28-1403.103

#Queenstown #Consents

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The High Court has put the kibosh on companies purchasing water consents granted for one purpose and putting them to a completely different use.

This harks back to the Supreme Court ruling on Cloud Ocean which prevented offshore companies turning water permits for wool scouring into huge water bottling operations.

In this case a tiny community group (Seesaw) with only 14 members has beaten the giant Fulton Hogan's Roydon Quarry near Templeton.

The Court found ECan didn’t have the power to grant a “use-only” consent, for quarrying, when the original consent was issued for the “take and use” of irrigating pasture. ECan’s error was “fundamental”, the judgement said.

But the bad guys never give up. "ECan is working on a plan change which, critics say, will undermine the precedent set by the Supreme Court."

Of course they are.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/03/court-quashes-quarrys-water-consent-with-a-sympathetic-delay/

#Water #NZ #Consents #ECan

"The ACT Party says it will allow builders to opt out of council building consents to improve the supply, quality and cost of housing."

But a law made for cowboy builders will not lead to better quality homes. Which insurers will underwrite Seymour's unconsented houses? Would banks even offer mortgages on them?

The man's a libertarian loon.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300967812/act-proposes-to-allow-builders-to-opt-out-of-council-building-consents

#NZPol #ActNotFitToGovern #ACT #Building #Consents