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Podcast: The Front Page
Episode: Is there really too much red tape holding up housing?
Description: Richlister Chris Meehan is taking aim at the Government in a series of advertisements.  The full-page newspaper ads describe Aotearoa as the land of the long red tape, bemoaning the difficulty of getting anything built.   He isn’t alone in making these complaints, with many other construction insiders also expressing the view that regulation has made building projects move at a glacial pace. So are they right? Are our rules too strict? And if these restrictions were relaxed would that hamper the quality of what’s being built? Winton Land CEO Chris Meeh...