Too many cooks in the kitchen??
I spend a lot of time thinking about efficiencies that can be gained in council’s resource consent processes. Probably too much time!
With the spotlight on ‘red tape’, and overhauling the RMA (again), we can be distracted from the day-to-day realities for how resource consents play out on the ground.
Enforcement is not mean or unfair
Throughout my work in compliance and enforcement in Councils and now as a consultant helping councils, I have regularly come across compliance officers who feel uncomfortable using enforcement.