Associate Agriculture Minister Andrew Hoggard says recently announced RMA changes will provide more certainty and confidence ...

The RMA makes it far too difficult for these types of projects to get consent,” Mr Bishop says. “Addressing this is critical to boosting economic growth, improving living standards and meeting ...

India’s pioneering Account Aggregator (AA) framework has already demonstrated the transformative potential of consent-driven data-sharing in the financial sector. Consent managers are envisaged ...

Two property developers have been fined more than $60,500 in total for carrying out residential developments that breached the Resource Management Act (RMA). Union Development was fined $42,750 at ...

A whistleblower said the hospital - the biggest in Wales - has recently had near misses involving patients entering operating theatres "without a consent form, or with the wrong consent form".

Approved builders, plumbers, and drainlayers will soon be able to sign off their own work as the Government tries to cut building consent wait times. Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk said ...

The previously announced 60 square metre granny flats that property owners will be able to build without building or resource consent - will now be 70sqm. Recent changes to the RMA will also help ...

An amendment to the Building Act in the middle of this year would permit granny flats to be build without a consent if they have a simple design ... a joint statement issued by the minister of housing ...

His other bugbear is whether, after 22 years of refinement, the RMA is actually stunting economic progress as claimed. In 2010-11, 0.56 per cent of resource consent applications were declined ...

This is why I was so frustrated last week to see a resource consent application ... and excuse the RMA language, the commissioners when declining this application concluded that the adverse effects ...