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Media release: for immediate release 17 August 2023 The Tree Council is delighted that the Government’s Natural and Built Environment Bill has passed its third and final reading and will become law. The Bill was significantly amended as a result of the thousands of submissions received by the Environment Select Committee calling for urban tree Read More …

The Environment Select Committee has released its report and recommended amendments to the Natural and Built Environment Bill, which will replace the Resource Management Act. Over the two rounds of consultation on the draft Bill supporters of The Tree Council and NZ Arb sent over 3,300 individual submissions to the Select Committee supporting the changes we recommended Read More …

Media release: for immediate release Wednesday 3 May 2023 The Government, through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), is asking for feedback regarding their discussion document on the review of the Electricity (Hazards from Trees) Regulations 2003. These are the regulations that determine how trees growing near to electrical supply infrastructure will be Read More …

The Tree Council has collaborated with Forest & Bird to make it easy for you to make a quick submission on Mayor Wayne Brown’s proposed austerity budget, which if implemented will cut a huge number of programmes and services that protect our environment, the arts and our communities. We need to get as many submissions Read More …

Media release: for immediate release 1 February 2023 The Tree Council is experiencing first hand, along with everyone else, the worst ravages of the flooding, landslips, chaos and carnage currently engulfing Auckland. The record-breaking rainfall and its unprecedented intensity is a clear signal of the future weather events we must expect to experience with increasing Read More …

Media release: for immediate release 14 December 2022 The Government recently introduced new legislation to replace the Resource Management Act and this is currently in select committee.  The Tree Council is calling on the public to make submissions on this new law now. This will be our last and final opportunity to influence how this Read More …

Media release: for immediate release 20 November 2022 The Tree Council welcomes the Labour Government’s announcement that they plan to re-introduce controls to enable local councils to better protect urban trees in the National Planning Framework as part of the Natural and Built Environments Act. We are glad to see that the Government recognises that Read More …

Media release: for immediate release Tuesday 15 November 2022 The Tree Council is angry and disappointed that the Labour Government has failed to deliver any improvement in the protection of urban trees in its draft legislation to replace the Resource Management Act, which had its first reading in Parliament today. The draft Natural and Built Read More …

The Tree Council welcomes the recent Auckland Council Planning Committee’s decision to put forward additional trees to be added to Schedule 10 (Notable Trees) in the upcoming notification of the August 2022 Unitary Plan change. In addition the Committee recognised that work will continue to process further trees that have been nominated and noted that Read More …

Media release: for immediate release Sunday 17 July 2022 The Tree Council is delighted to announce that we have settled, with an out-of-court agreement with Auckland Council, our judicial review of Auckland Council’s November 2020 decision not to allocate any resources to the management of Schedule 10 (Notable Trees). The specific terms of the settlement Read More …