Introduction
The Ministry of Economic Development received 53 submissions in response to its discussion paper Review of Issues Affecting Utilities and Road, Rail and Motorway Corridors (ISBN 0-478-28443-8 released June 2005). A list of submitters is included in Appendix A of this report.
Overall, the detail, comprehensiveness, and strategic thinking of the submissions reflected stakeholders' desire to gain effective solutions for the issues raised in the review. There is certainly polarised thinking on some issues by RCAs versus Utilities, however, the Ministry was encouraged to see compromise and collaborative thinking from many parties on many of the issues.
What can be broadly ascertained from this review is the strong desire from all stakeholders for a consistent, pragmatic, and equitable legislative framework for managing utilities in the road, rail, and motorway corridors. What is clear to the Ministry is that the achievement of this goal will not be a simple quick fix solution, but instead, require a more thorough and stakeholder participated discussion of individual issues and solutions. The submissions received and conclusions drawn from this initial review lay the foundation for more comprehensive and detailed reviews of issues in order to deliver equitable solutions and an overall pragmatic strategy.
A rigorous analysis has been undertaken by the Ministry. Due to the wide range and complexity of issues covered in this review, this summary of submissions is not brief. The full results from which this summary is derived is available on request (contact electricity@med.govt.nz).
Each section of this paper covers an issue from the discussion paper and presents a summary of the submissions for the proposals and questions posed in the discussion paper. For succinctness, generalised results are given along with any significant suggestions of note. Other issues that were submitted that were not attributed to a specific question or proposal are summarised in the last section.
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