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Auckland Council’s Plan Change 120 (PC120) signals a major shift in how natural hazard risks, particularly flooding, are managed across the region. From 3 November 2025, several components of the rewritten E36 Natural Hazards and Flooding chapter gained immediate legal effect under section 86B of the RMA. For landowners, developers, and anyone preparing a resource consent application, this means that the new risk-based framework applies now, not later when PC120 becomes fully

When our Ecologist Leane Makey is not providing expert ecology consulting services for Buckton Surveyors and Planners, she gets to put on her other hat as a Research Fellow in the School of Environment at University of Auckland, specialising in critical social environmental research. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Marine Ecology and a PhD in Environmental Sciences, making her an incredibly skilled and knowledgeable asset to our team. Dr Leane Makey was recently the recipient of th