Submission to Productivity Commission on Better Urban Planning - Draft Report

Water NZ is primarily concerned with proposed changes that affect the water sector and our comments in this submission are therefore directed at changes affecting that sector. Water NZ provided comment on the Commission’s Issues Paper, Better Urban Planning in March 2016 where Water NZ identified three themes of relevance to the water sector: environmental management; delivery of water services and financing of water service. 2 These themes are also relevant to this submission and this submission builds on and expands those comments as they apply to the solutions proposed in the Commission’s Report.