Hamilton City Councillor Andrew Bydder has written a lengthy and detailed article for the Good Oil to help readers concerned about our local councils to get prepared for the next LGNZ elections. This is part one. [Ed.]
I spent 30 years working with councils from the outside as an architectural designer and property developer before being elected to Hamilton City Council in 2022. I fought the ever-increasing bureaucracy that transformed resource consents from simple one-page applications to expensive year-long 1,000-page multi-consultant battles having no discernible benefit other than covering staff butts.
