Posts by Sacha
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to James Bremner,
Poorer New Zealanders have been hurt by artificially restricting something New Zealand has a lot of
Money.
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to James Bremner,
Due to a desire to reduce urban sprawl, some cities place urban boundaries to restrain growth (in area) of a city. Populations grow and are expected to continue to do so, so for an extended period of time demand for houses grows faster the supply of houses, which can only result in increased prices.
Only if the market does not function properly by building more dwellings per patch of land. Housing supply is not land supply.
Factors other than land availability are driving our developers to insist on building single-storey detached houses. Intensification mostly involves building *groups* of dwellings. That can be done either inside or outside planning boundaries which balance infrastructure supply costs, environmental sensitivity, opportunity cost of productive land and other aspects. It may require some industry upskilling and regulatory change to enable other development typologies or timeframes. In any case, it demands stronger leadership at both local and national levels that we've seen before.
Our current system works wonderfully if you are a debt-hungry bank or a lazy developer who wants maximum return for minimum effort. It's time other people's interests got more attention, like our children and theirs.
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Legal Beagle: D-Day for Dunne (updated), in reply to BenWilson,
But Dunne isn't middle-aged
Seems to be a thing for boomer journos to describe their peers that way. Not old. No, not me.
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Here's how Danyl characterises it.
...for no apparent reason other than that he liked and wanted to impress the journalist he leaked it to.
Dunne gave a tortured, rambling confession in his press conference while insisting that he didn’t actually leak the document. He just considered leaking it and talked about it with the journalist who the documents were leaked to, and arranged to meet her on the day they were leaked and disappeared from his office during the time he’d arranged to meet with her, but didn’t meet with her, but can’t say where he was.
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Jane Clifton offers a cogent explanation of the whole strange affair.
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Legal Beagle: D-Day for Dunne (updated), in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
And if so, why not say that explicitly when challenged on it?
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Legal Beagle: D-Day for Dunne (updated), in reply to Brent Jackson,
I guess to a lawyer like Peters "advice" must imply one of your colleagues got paid.
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Legal Beagle: D-Day for Dunne (updated), in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I don't see a reason why you wouldn't, unless perhaps it wasn't in writing?
Or if it means you have to disclose where/who that advice came from.
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Legal Beagle: D-Day for Dunne (updated), in reply to Rob Stowell,
Does seem out of his depth at times. Is he a shrewd man in person?
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Legal Beagle: D-Day for Dunne (updated), in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
The Speaker acts on formal advice and does not take the initiative.
Seems relevant