Many aesthetic changes to buildings will no longer need consents - under the Government's Resource Management Act shake-up.

The replacement Planning and Natural Environment Bills are being introduced to Parliament today - and will pass next year. 

RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop says planners won't be able to block projects because of visual changes - as long as other people aren't affected.

He told Ryan Bridge that planners have got involved in some cases, to a ridiculous degree. 
 
Bishop says that includes the direction doors face and where televisions were placed in living rooms. 

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