The previous government’s Future of Local Government Review was a very sick mongrel which Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has
mercifully euthanised.. . . The previous government initiated the review because its Three Waters and resource management reforms would have stripped local government of responsibility for water assets and planning rights.
“Our government has repealed Labour’s divisive and unpopular reforms and has restored continued local ownership and responsibilities for water services and resource management,” Mr Brown says.
