Delahunty CatherineCATHERINE DELAHUNTY (Green): Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. I really welcome the opportunity to support the proposed new Part 6 and also the amendment that Julie Anne Genter is proposing to this amendment because what is great about this debate is it is an actual opportunity to talk about great things not only about how terrible and useless the Government is which is a bit of a given but to actually talk about something awesome which is that we have got ideas for designing things better.I think the first thing that we are talking about is the need for a plan and what I like about both these amendments is the idea of a national policy statement on urban growth or even better on urban design. Why is that so important? It is so important because we already have an infrastructure mess and growth problems right across not just Auckland which has had a lot of focus but also many of the rural communities the small towns and my particular passion—which is odd and not shared by everybody—which is sewerage. It is an interesting passion but it is very relevant to urban growth because if we do not handle that stuff properly and we shove a whole lot more houses into special housing areas where the infrastructure is not designed to take it we are going to get a bit of a mess.So the other week I was in the leafy suburb of Herne Bay being lobbied by some people who were saying that the special housing area was going to put enormous strain on the infrastructure in that area. They were very concerned about urban growth these people because they have got raw sewage running down their road every time there is heavy rain. That is a really interesting example of what happens when you propose more housing badly planned—without a plan actually—just because it sounds like a good idea to make somewhere a special housing area and shove 70 homes into a small space when already Cox's Bay is so contaminated that wading is a joke let alone swimming. It is a pretty sad situation for a beautiful spot like Cox's Bay which is in the middle of the Grey Lynn - Point Chevalier - Herne Bay area right in the city where people want to have fun and want to play.So although we welcome this we really want to see some detailed planning because there is the issue of sewerage my particular passion because if we cannot fix that up—we can put people on the moon but we still cannot deal with our own waste—that is primitive. Allowing raw sewage to run into the sea is primitive and allowing our streets in our bigger cities to run with raw sewage during heavy rain is primitive. That is about bad urban planning. That is about exhausting your pipes and resources.But there is also the issue that Julie Anne Genter brings up which is climate change. So climate change is not going to happen just to Auckland and Dunedin and Christchurch where I can see the largest number of people could be displaced but I live in the town of Thames where it is estimated that quite a lot of our low land will go under water. What we need out of Government housing strategies and infrastructure planning strategies is leadership to encourage local government and regional government to take this seriously but if we keep pretending that climate change is not really happening and that we do not have a role in the leadership of good housing planning good design and good urban design we are never going to get there when the crisis hits.We will all be staggering around like we are now. Housing crisis the Government does not get it everyone is dabbling around people living in cars shameful nation mentioned in The Guardian total disaster—add to all that climate change. So it is going to be people living in cars driving underwater nowhere to sleep water is going crazy urban design is not happening the Government does not know what to do.Fortunately we are going to change the Government. We are going to inherit the mess but we are going to start doing something about it and that is what Part 6 and the amendments we are proposing are about. It is about doing something about it and thinking ahead because our cities and our small towns all need urban design.If Julie Anne Genter was here she would be saying: And it's about parking rules." She is an expert on parking rules which is an area that I fear to tread in because I think you need to understand parking a lot more than I do but I really get why she has put up this amendment for spatial design to accompany—if you are going to set up urban limits and boundaries there has to be an alternative view that creates a spatial planning design strategy that makes sense.So all of this is about common sense. All of this is about saying the Government has a role so in many ways this whole debate including this part is about the role of the State—about whether the State actually has a role or whether it is a hands-off chaotic "Let the sewage run raw in the street. Let the sea-level rise come over the low land. Let's just everybody build a house.""