In the fifth of a summer series on Wairarapa leaders' views on the government's proposed local council reforms, Carterton mayor Steve Cretney shares his perspectives.
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The government's recently proposed council shake-up has been called the most wide-ranging in a generation.
Changes include scrapping regional councils, introducing a rates cap of between 2 and 4 percent, and a simplification of planning legislation.
Cretney said it was hard to comment without having
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