Dear
Friend,
We’re
nearing the end of our Hands Off Our Homes – Stop Central Planning
Committees Roadshow Tour (today we are in Pukekohe – details of
the event here)
and one thing is clear:Â New Zealanders are shocked once they learn what
David Parker and Chris Hipkins are planning to do with our planning
laws.
This is Three Waters but
even worse.
I'm
emailing to ask for your support so we can blow this issue up and
publish
a four page exposé in tomorrow's NZ Herald – if we can raise the
necessary funds by deadline
of 7pm today.
The new
laws will apply undemocratic/unaccountable co-governce for decision
making on laws for what you can do with your home, your farm, your business and your property.Â
They would apply Soviet-style intrusive
30-year central plans right down to what sort of businesses are
allowed where, and what type of crops and livestock farmers can have
in individual paddocks.Â
For
current and future homeowners, Regional Planning Committees will be
able to use climate change goals to make laws on what you can and
cannot add or build in your home. These committees will also be bound
to uphold new and undefined concepts such as ‘Te Oranga o te Taiao’
and the 'Mana of the air, water, and soil' that will lead to costly
court battles, delay, and a less prosperous New Zealand.
Councils
– and democratic accountability – are left out in the cold under these
‘Central Planning Committee’ regional models.Â
We need to blow this issue
up – like we did with Three Waters – if we are to see it properly
examined by the media, and the opposition
parties. I am asking for your support to make that
happen.
Friend,
we’ve been working on this hard-hitting, four-page lift out /
advertisement which we’ve managed to get the NZ Herald to agree to
publish at a special price of $42,500 as a last minute deal for
tomorrow's edition. We
need to raise the these funds before their deadline of 7pm
tonight.
As you’ll
see , we
haven’t pulled our punches. Here’s the proposed ad (the
full version is available on our website here):
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Planning law is
complex – but it’s a simple message: The existing Resource Management
Act is costly and bureaucratic, but at least those making
district/city plans are accountable to voters.
Under David
Parker’s proposed laws, control of what you can build where (such as
height limits on you and your neighbours, or what animals/crops can be
put where, and who can take water from aquifers) will be up to
undemocratic, unaccountable, co-governed ‘Regional Planning
Committees’.
Friend, will you chip-in
to get this advert in tomorrow NZ Herald – and other NZME
publications? Â
>>>
Yes, I’ll help sponsor this effort to get in tomorrow’s NZ Herald
<<<
Thank you
for your support.
Callum
Purves, Campaigns Manager @ NZ Taxpayers’ Union
P.S.We are working on Stuff newspapers too but so far
they’ve been very difficult. Nevertheless, any excess funds will be
used to spread the message in more newspapers and online. Click
here to make a confidential and secure
donation.
Sent from
my iPhone.
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