Urban green space
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Aotearoa's cities are losing their leaves
Explore StoryMapGreen spaces in New Zealand's cities are declining. That has consequences for the environmental services they provide.
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Are we building harder, hotter cities?
Read reportThe fabric of our cities is changing rapidly in response to ongoing population growth. What will the impact be on places like our lawns and vegetable gardens, roadside berms, neighbourhood parks, riparian strips, patches of bush, school fields, golf courses and civic gardens?
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Submission on Natural and Built Environment Bill and Spatial Planning Bill
Read submissionThe reforms proposed by the Natural and Built Environment Bill and the Spatial Planning Bill amount to a far-reaching reorganisation of environmental management in New Zealand.
This submission concentrates on the major structural elements of the proposed reform together with some attention to key clauses.
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Find out more
The core work of the office is to provide advice to decision makers that maintains or improves the quality of the environment. See what the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has been working on.
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