PLANNING
Policy team at Queenstown Lakes District Council
Planners in New Zealand local government work in three key areas:
- Policy – making the rules
- Consents processing – ensuring councils have control over the rules
- Monitoring and compliance – ensuring the rules are followed.
Planners will typically work with:
- Resource Management Act
- Traffic and transportation planning
- Community and social planning
- Strategic planning
- Economic development
- Financial planning
- Bylaw development
- Urban design.
Study typically includes Planning, Geography, Law, Environmental Science.
For a case study, see Lakes, mountains, sun, water, snow – and people, lots of them.