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Are you fed up with the resource consent industry and think that it needs to improve?
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Do you think the system is unnecessarily adversarial? This coupled with tight timeframes and high workloads makes it too stressful?
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Are you frustrated with inconsistency? Even within the same Council requirements seem to change from person to person from day to day.
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Does it feel like there is sometimes too much focus on outcomes and too little on good practical outcomes?
If you feel like this and have ideas to improve the way we apply for and process resource consents, we are on the same page.
Why NZ Planning Hub?
The fault is not with the RMA or planners. It is the way the system as a whole has developed. The status quo is not working as well as it could be and we need to make it better to create better cities, rural areas and a better environment.
Often working with resource consents means tight timeframes and conflict situations. This causes stress. There is also a lot of inconsistency that leads to unnecessary costs, uncertainty and time delays. One of the reasons for this is that there is a lack of opportunities for people that work in the industry to discuss challenges, to support each other and share good ideas. That is Until now.
NZ Planning Hub exists so that there is a way for everyone that works in the resource consent industry to be proactive. Engineers, traffic experts, acoustic engineers, ecologists, architects, designers and planner and many other experts devote long hours of their lives to consents. Everyone experiences frustration and everyone has musings or thoughts on how the system could be improved. Think of what could happen if we shared those ideas. NZ Planning Hub is a place for the industry to come together.
I'm Angela Goodwin, the owner of Potentialis Planning and founder of NZ Planning Hub. After lots of conversations where colleagues, other experts and clients expressed their frustrations about resource consents and ideas on how the system could be better, I decided to do something about it. The final straw was when someone told me getting a resource consent was the worst experience of their life. Shortly after that NZ Planning Hub commenced. I believe that planning is about making life better, positive change and making a difference. NZPH is about constantly improving resource consents.
