Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Kitt Littlejohn, Barrister and Mediator
Learning Objectives
- Understand how the proposed RMA reforms impact subdivision and land use planning
- Identify how legislative changes affect infrastructure delivery, land classification, and development permissions
Implications of RMA Reform for Subdivision
Proposed changes to RMA national direction affecting subdivisions:
- Going for Housing Growth package
- Other changes relevant to subdivisions
- Focus on infrastructure delivery
- Natural hazards
- Granny flats
- Highly productive land
A Quick RMA Reform Update:
- Recommendations on RMA reform from the Expert Advisory Group (EAG)
- What has and has not been accepted by Cabinet
- What we can expect from the replacement legislation
Presented by Kate Storer, Special Counsel, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
Presenters
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Kate Storer, Special Counsel, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
Kate is an environmental and resource management lawyer with more than 10 years’ experience advising public and private sector clients on all areas of resource management law. Before joining MinterEllisonRuddWatts, Kate was a partner at a specialist resource management firm in Auckland. Kate works with clients on the full breadth of resource management issues, including in the urban development, infrastructure, industrial, forestry and agriculture sectors. She has expertise in advising on major development projects, including in particular rezoning and consenting large-scale greenfield urban development, mines and quarries. She has chaired three fast track panels for solar farm projects, under the Covid 19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act 2020 and the Natural and Built Environment Act 2023.
Kitt Littlejohn, Barrister and Mediator
Kitt is a seasoned lawyer with over three decades of post-admission experience. After commencing practice as a property lawyer in his hometown of New Plymouth, he moved to Auckland in 1997, where he specialised in environmental and resource management law, commencing practice as a Barrister sole in 2000. Since then he has practiced almost exclusively in resource management, property, public law, and related regulatory areas. Kitt advises a diverse range of individual and corporate clients seeking approvals across a various industries, as well assisting non-profit environmental protection groups. Kitt’s extensive expertise includes advising on resource development and statutory planning projects at all stages, with specialties in urban redevelopment, rural subdivision, coastal and maritime development, retirement, childcare, waste management, and ports. Additionally, Kitt has been qualified as an Independent Commissioner since 2008 and since then has chaired well over 100 notified application hearings for numerous local authorities around New Zealand. Kitt has also chaired Expert Consent Panels under the COVID Fast-track legislation and he continues to do so under the new Fast-track Approvals Act.
