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Background

The government is replacing the RMA in response to complaints that it’s clunky and slow, too costly and failing to protect the environment.
The RMA will be replaced by three new Acts:
- Natural and Built Environments Act (NBA),
- Strategic Planning Act (SPA),
- Climate Change Adaption Act (CAA).
The new laws will include Treaty of Waitangi obligations and challenges like climate change.
They would streamline planning and consents with a single region-wide plan.
Meanwhile, we’re focused on delivering:
- Our urgent response to climate change and our Climate Action framework.
- Our District Plan to decide what can be built and where.
- Our 10-Year Plan to Fix the Plumbing, Pay it Forward with a multi-purpose hub for our kids and Greening our Place with planting and a walkway network.
- Our City Centre Strategy.
For more information, go to the Ministry for the Environment.
You can read Ko Tātou-Local Government New Zealand’s take on the changes here.

Page last updated: 11:48am Wed 02 July 2025