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Speaker 1: Our local MP is James Megan, Morning Morning. How so

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Speaker 1: we've heard the government wants to scrap regional councils and

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Speaker 1: the biggest shake up of local government in thirty five

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Speaker 1: years and instead making up boards with mayors from the

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Speaker 1: local region. Is this actually going to work well?

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Speaker 2: We think so. It's part of the overall changes to

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Speaker 2: the RMA. So if you look ahead for the next

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks from the RAMA reform comes out, we're

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Speaker 2: completely up end the planning system. It's going to be

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Speaker 2: a much simpler, much more straightforward system with far fewer layers.

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Speaker 2: That's going to mean we can need a much more

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Speaker 2: simplified local government system as well. So the first step

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Speaker 2: is this proposal to replace the elected regional council with

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Speaker 2: the sort of a board of the mayors from the

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Speaker 2: various councils from around the region, and their job will

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Speaker 2: be not only to administer the day to day activities

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Speaker 2: of the current council, but also to put in place

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Speaker 2: a plan for what the services look like in the

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Speaker 2: particular local region, essentially a local regional plan. So for

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Speaker 2: US Mid Canbary that might look like a unitary. In

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Speaker 2: Mid Canary it might look like a wider Mid Canberry

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Speaker 2: South Canterbury Regional Council with territorial authorities, but that'd be

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Speaker 2: up to the local mayors and community to decide and

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Speaker 2: put forward.

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Speaker 1: Sheeshuz if Liz wasn't busy enough. I like the idea

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Speaker 1: that they had a couple of proposed structures on the

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Speaker 1: news last night, one where that's made up of seven

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Speaker 1: mears from around Canterbury. Each one gets equal voting rights.

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Speaker 1: That's what we need because from what I've been hearing,

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Speaker 1: the issue with environment Canterburry up to this point is

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Speaker 1: that it's just been too city heavy and there's such

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Speaker 1: a disconnect between what's happening around the table and the

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Speaker 1: needs of those out rule.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one of the arguments that he can has

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Speaker 2: run basically out of christ Church and there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of focus on the public transport side of things. Of course,

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Speaker 2: for us out in the regions, public transport doesn't usually

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Speaker 2: mean Didley because we're all out there getting out on

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Speaker 2: our own and we're more concerned with what the approach

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Speaker 2: to consenting and resource uses. So we think that under

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Speaker 2: the new system that's coming through and it'll be out

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Speaker 2: in December and into the select Committee for people to

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Speaker 2: have this say and through Parliament August next year. The

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Speaker 2: new RMA will drassly reduce the amount of consents we

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Speaker 2: will need, hopefully simplify the system and make it easy

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Speaker 2: to get on with what we need to get on with.

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Speaker 2: And so that's going to result in a lot of

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Speaker 2: those regional council functions needing to well cease but also

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Speaker 2: be reallocated to the appropriate entity. And that's what this

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Speaker 2: plan is for the Combined Territory Boards to do, is

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Speaker 2: to figure out what's the best way to do that,

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Speaker 2: region by region.

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Speaker 1: David Clark likes the sound of vance. Why didn't you

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Speaker 1: announce this a month ago? We've only just had an election.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't we have saved all that fuss.

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Speaker 2: Well, whether we announced it a month ago or a

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Speaker 2: year ago or a year from now, the whole thing's

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Speaker 2: going to take time. So this isn't as though it's

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Speaker 2: going to happen in January or February. There is a

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Speaker 2: lot of work to get through, in a lot of

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Speaker 2: water to go into the bridge, or two bridges, so

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Speaker 2: to speak. And so whether or not there are in

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Speaker 2: local elections a month ago or whether or not we

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Speaker 2: made this announcement or made these decisions in the middle

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Speaker 2: of next year or in two years time. It was

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Speaker 2: always going to be in the middle of some cycle.

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Speaker 2: But what we're focused on is a simp fi a

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Speaker 2: system and getting the change that we think that locals

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Speaker 2: have actually called for quite a while, including a lot

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Speaker 2: of ourmus and councils.

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Speaker 1: Actually, on another note, caught Harriet Sutton, who's the deputy

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Speaker 1: principal at Long Beach School, earlier this week she's off

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Speaker 1: with senior students to Stuart Island. Well, they're there camping

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Speaker 1: as we speak, and you were there a little earlier

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Speaker 1: this week too. Did you spot them?

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Speaker 2: No, we didn't. We must have crossed paths. They might

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Speaker 2: have been coming over on the boat as I was

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Speaker 2: on one of the pencil plane flights.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, that's cheating. Yeah, the real Stuart Island experience

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Speaker 1: is to be hanging on by your fingernail the boats

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Speaker 1: locking it on straight.

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Speaker 2: Plenty of time fingernailing it in and around Stuart Island

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Speaker 2: over the day. So we we're out there and sense

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Speaker 2: time on Olva Island, which that was an amazing place

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Speaker 2: to be, just to see all the prided free aspect

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Speaker 2: of it. And the biodiversity that's around there and spend

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Speaker 2: a night in one of the hunter's huts, so there's

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Speaker 2: a trust. Yeah, it was really cool and they are

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Speaker 2: a really great neck and it's a great thing to

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Speaker 2: see that hunter's huts can be established on what is

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Speaker 2: essentially conservation land in order to help out, you know,

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Speaker 2: not only those hunters, but also those trampers and people

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Speaker 2: who want to use them stay in them. So it

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Speaker 2: was a really cool, experienced, beautiful part of the world.

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Speaker 2: I would encourage anyone to get down there if they can,

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Speaker 2: and hopefully the long beach career have a really great

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Speaker 2: time down there. Ever, the next few.

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Speaker 1: Days, I'm sure they will. Were you accosted by keyas

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Speaker 1: That's the one thing I wasn't prepared for is Olver Island.

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Speaker 1: We were lucky enough to go and explore the family

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Speaker 1: a couple of years back, and we sat down to

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Speaker 1: have some lunch and just out of nowhere, these very

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Speaker 1: confident keys want to come and take their share.

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Speaker 2: No, it didn't get a cost of by any keys,

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Speaker 2: but we did worken up at five am by a

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Speaker 2: very loud, embolshious sea lion who had wanded up onto

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Speaker 2: the lawn outside the hut and decided to all for

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Speaker 2: a friend for about half an hour, so that was

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Speaker 2: probably the closest we got to wildlife endangerment, but I

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Speaker 2: think he may have found a bit of a friend

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Speaker 2: and moved on very very quickly part of the bush planet.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure it was just a little bit of hand

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Speaker 2: holding and all innocent island