Notes from Crown Maori Relations hui Rotorua 29 April 2018 [pdf, 433 KB]
...developing land due to ‘red tape’, restrictions on use of land by local authorities or high local authority rates and feeling alienated from the land because of these restrictions. Those same speakers spoke of the difficulty of Māori having to seek resource consents to utilise their own land and are expected to pay for resource consents. A key theme on this point was that financial restrictions limit Māori from full use of their whenua and developing papakainga. • Treaty set...