Unitary Plan Submission period almost over

With less than four hours to go before the submission period on the Draft Unitary Plan closes I thought we would do one discussion of news on the plan as well as a reminder to get your submission in.

Auckland Council say that so far over 14,000 pieces of feedback have been received on the plan. At the start of the week the count was at less than 3000. Of course we don’t know what the make up of those submissions are and I pity the people who have to read through them all.

Radio NZ covered off a number of aspects of the discussion this morning including:

Penny Hulse saying that changes will be made to the plan.

Or you can listen here

Our good friend Sudhvir Singh from Generation Zero

Or you can listen here

A general piece of on the plan

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Len Brown Talking about the plan.

Or you can listen here

Some planning experts talking about what happens if we sprawl.

Or you can listen here

As mentioned in the last piece, there has been a huge amount of misinformation being put out about the plan, something we have talked about more than once. Unfortunately it has really skewed the debate which has been unhelpful and why it is so important that you make a submission.

You can read our blog submission here and either fill in the councils feedback form or use in the quick and easy Generation Zero template but remember to do it before 5pm

I must say, as fun as it has been talking about the plan, I am looking forward to this being over …. for now. Next week we will take a more in depth look at the issues surrounding the alternative funding discussion as submissions for that close next Friday.

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