Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you. I'm delighted to take a call on a bill that I've actually read. That member who has just taken his seat the Hon David Bennett obviously hadn't and did I hear him say that he's happy for productive lands to be used to build houses on? I thought that that was one of the things that the National Party were attacking Labour about and so I'm really surprised that a million-plus people can go into that community of Hamilton. I'm quite surprised actually about that whole speech. But like I say I don't think the member has read the bill.Now let's go on to the bill. The bill I really do have to say—having come from Tauranga Moana where we do have a really interesting model in our community—will essentially provide some great planning and a system in place to ensure some strategic planning. Basically what has happened in my city is that we have had growth which has not been planned well. Tauranga Moana—we are suffering from a lack of infrastructure that fails to support us to grow appropriately. We have two-lane bridges in the middle of cities. If there's an accident our city is closed off. We have a situation where we have much more expensive land outside of the city—which is for kiwifruit etc.—which is meaning that we don't have land to be able to use.We have SmartGrowth and they have done some extraordinary work but it's all retrospective: it's all about what we needed to have 20-plus years ago. Now this bill the Spatial Planning Bill will actually enable us to get ahead of these issues that are coming. It will actually support us to be able to think about where we need a school where we need a hospital. I'm sorry but the market is not going to deliver that for us. I'm sorry about that fact but actually it won't. We need to manage to ensure and to plan and we need to do this. A 30-year window is the kind of window that we need. I'm thinking about my children and my grandchildren and I'm thinking about the kind of liveable city that I'm in currently in Tauranga Moana; the issues that are happening for us currently and what will happen going forward if we fail to plan going forward.My city is a coastal city. We know climate change is coming; we know something is going to really alter in our city. We know with climate change there are going to be some changes in the crops that we can grow and we're a kiwifruit country. Kiwifruit country could be at risk. This Spatial Planning Bill enables us to get ahead of these big issues. I think the really important thing that the members from across the aisle haven't taken into account is absolutely this is complex stuff but it needs to happen and we don't resile from that. We don't stand back and say Oh too hard; we'll not do anything." That sounds very much like the National Party's response to the Resource Management Act. We're actually getting in we're putting this in place and we're going to give it a damned good go.Now the thing that is important to recall as well is that there is a review period that is built into this bill. It's about looking and seeing if these plans have been successful and reviewing them. I think that that's very important and very sensible. It means that sure if something remarkably different happens there can be a review period and that seems very sensible to me.Finally I would like to just address the fact that with the select committee we are absolutely going to be working across two pieces of legislation that are interrelated. So this is a plea to the public out there: we want to hear on both pieces of legislation. We're very interested to know both pieces of legislation and your views and values. But also when we are managing this process—and the two will be running together—we'd like to ask and ensure that the public put together a submission so we can easily tell which piece of legislation you're referring to. I think that that's absolutely critical for us so that when we hear from the community and the public we actually are really clear when we do our pre-reading what we're actually going to be talking about.And finally I would just like to acknowledge the select committee who even though and despite the fact that the Opposition and the ACT Party are not agreeing to support this bill will work diligently who will work together because despite the things that everyone has said here in this House they know it's important that we have to get this legislation right. We have to do the right thing for the environment. We have to do the right thing for people. With that I commend this bill to the House."