Podcast: Replacing the RMA (Part 2): What the draft national direction gets right and what it leaves out
Dr Eric Crampton
Nick Clark
Paul Melville
22 October, 2026
In this episode, Eric talks to Nick Clark and Paul Melville about the illustrative national policy direction, the draft document that will put the detail into the two acts replacing the Resource Management Act. They go through what the draft gets right, including a presumption that people can use their land without unnecessary constraints, and where it falls short, from the exceptions that could undercut that presumption to the detail pushed down again into standards yet to be written.
This episode was recorded on 8 October 2026. The Initiative’s submission has since been made and is available here.