Waste planning for a booming tourist town
April 2018
Senior Consultant Alice Grace and Deborah Lind from Queenstown Local District Council, recently wrote an article on the challenges, options and decision-making processes behind a bold new scheme tackl...
Local Government Magazine
April 2018
A new article by Kitty Waghorn, waste asset manager at Waimakariri District Council on recent changes to the waste management system was published in LG Magazine. Morrison Low has been involved with W...
The government's new $3 billion Provincial Growth Fund
February 2018
The New Zealand Government has now announced how eligible councils can access the new Provincial Growth Fund. https://beehive.govt.nz/release/provincial-growth-fund-open-business Morrison Low has a lo...
NSW Road Maintenance Council Contracts (RMCC) and National Prequalification for Civil (Road and Bridge) Construction Contracts
December 2017
Feedback from Road Maintenance Council Contracts (RMCC) stakeholders suggests that future engagement models for council road maintenance contracts will require individual councils to be prequalified u...
Joint Organisations
November 2017
It has been a long time coming but Joint Organisations are now here. After the last few years it will be interesting to see how the industry reacts to this latest voluntary program of the Office of Lo...
Changes to Housing Policy
November 2017
It is clear that the new government is going to take a different approach to tackling housing issues. This includes how it will increase the number of social houses and social housing providers. A num...
Cost of Growth
November 2017
Investment in the infrastructure required to support a growing population comes with significant risk for local authorities. Failure to get it right means that ratepayers are funding that growth.
What does the Election Result mean for Local Government?
October 2017
As of today no one really knows.We do know that New Zealand First will play an important role in government going forward – whether it be part of the next government or from the cross benches.We won’t...
Special Schedule 7 to be completed soon
August 2017
With the preparation of the 2016/17 financial statements well underway it is essential to have reliable and accurate reporting of your organisation’s infrastructure needs. Having a reliable, repeatabl...
Special Schedule 7
June 2017
By now we all appreciate the importance of fully understanding our organisation’s infrastructure needs and the importance of infrastructure reporting via Special Schedule 7. Having a reliable, repeata...