The Harbour Trust and the Guardians of the Inlet have made joint submissions on the Planning Bill and the Natural Environment Bill.

We support well planned growth and development compatible with environmental limits and ecological capacity. These Bills, as currently written, will not deliver that.

Our concerns are that the Bills lack clear, enforceable and precautionary environmental limits. Furthermore, it is very unclear how the two pieces of legislation would work together along with other changes that the Government has made or is making with fast track legislation, regional government reform and lodcal body rates capping.

Read the detail in our submissions.