High time regional councils were reined in

High time regional councils were reined in

Reading Time: 3 minutes I mentioned regional councils in last week’s column – how their workload was reducing but their rates kept increasing at ridiculous levels considering the current climate. Your feedback was interesting. I obviously struck a chord. As I also pointed out last week, there is absolutely no use in central government giving tax cuts when local government takes more from us. That means the tax burden on the productive sector ac…

Our slow regional councils

The Select Committee hearing submissions on the fast-track consenting legislation is starting to become a beat-up of regional councils. The inflexibility and slow workings of the Councils were prominent in two submissions yesterday. One, from the Coromandel Marine Farmers Association, simply said that the Waikato Regional Council’s planning decisions were likely to mean their industry would become extinct. Another, from the Wood Processors and M…