Turei MetiriaMETIRIA TUREI (Co-Leader—Green): I want to echo the comments of my colleague Megan Woods. The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has made it very clear that planning for climate change and for the infrastructure costs and changes that are needed is absolutely critical for large parts of New Zealand's urban and coastal areas including the city where I live—Dunedin. South Dunedin is at particular risk of sea level rise and there are particular infrastructure issues that arise from it being an old city with old infrastructure. So there needs to be careful measured planning and the authority to do that planning the ability to communicate that and then the ability to change the rules when it is needed in order to be able to prepare for the sea level rise that is expected and that is already in our case affecting large parts of South Dunedin. I look forward to the amendments from my colleague Julie Anne Genter who is including climate change into new Part 6 which is proposed by Labour. The Green Party will be supporting Part 6 and we look forward to support for the amendments that we are making to Part 6. Beyond the climate change aspects that need to be considered I did just want to take it back to a kind of human level—a street-level approach if you like. One of the reasons why I am quite supportive of new Part 6 despite the concerns around the urban growth boundaries is that the rest of this part sets out a new kind of way of looking at planning and that is essential not just for those areas that might be affected by climate change but actually for the reimagining of our cities and towns as places where people love to live. All of the things that people need the most—access to decent homes; affordable transport to green space where they can enjoy their communities together; those social community spaces where it is safe because there are lots of people around and lots of different kinds of people around and where there are great pedestrian and safe cycling opportunities for families to get to work and to school and to enjoy for recreation—come out of a proper infrastructure system which is being proposed here in new Part 6 and proper urban design that allows for people to come together and design their cities the way that they want them to be. So I want to encourage members and members of the public to have a look at the Green Party proposal for reimagining our cities—the Greens' cities proposal which we released a month or so ago. That proposal asked for feedback from the public from New Zealanders and from people involved in the industry about two things: one is the building code and we dealt with some of that in the debate on proposed new Part 4; and the other is a national policy statement on urban design. That is what sits on top of the infrastructure and planning tools that are set out in new Part 6. So we pass Part 6 we get those planning tools right and then on top of that we design and build the cities and the communities that we know that people want to live in. That includes things like the street design to make it comfortable for people to move around easily from place to place—from home to shop to school to after-school events to the theatres and to work and back. It is designed around women and children which is a new approach to urban design where the needs of women and children feature at the centre of urban design. This is because actually the research shows that women travel more as a result of their daily requirements of activities: getting their kids to school often doing all of the shopping and getting to work and managing the after-school care. Women's travel and city requirements if you like are much more complex than men's it turns out in the research so let us have urban design that focuses on the needs of women and children to keep them safe and enable them to use their city in the best way possible. Let us make sure that urban design promotes child and pedestrian-friendly environments so that we can reduce the risk to children and to pedestrians—but particularly children who are walking to and from school—from the hazards of roadways and driveways where so many accidents occur. There are really good opportunities here for community spaces that help to build collaboration and connection between communities rather than the isolation that many older New Zealanders especially are starting to face. As older New Zealanders are facing more and more financial pressure they are also increasingly isolated from their communities and finding it more and more difficult to connect to the people who—