

Council officials make mockery of Unitary Plan
To visit the original article, please click here. There is little point having an Auckland Unitary Plan if council planners ignore it....

Grant McLachlan - New Zealand Herald - Column
Mar 6, 20183 min read


Protected trees are falling to council incompetence
To view the original article, please click here. The Auckland Council is causing serious environmental damage due to decisions based on...

Grant McLachlan - New Zealand Herald - Column
Oct 4, 20173 min read


FACT CHECK: Did Didsbury bury his complicity in Boathouse Bay?
If you view this year’s 1 March issue of Mahurangi Matters, one thing stands out. Can you spot it?

Grant McLachlan
Sep 27, 201710 min read


Snell's Beach historic pine exposes law's weak protection
To view the original article, please click here. The Lawrie's Norfolk is now on the New Zealand Tree Register. The recent decision by the...

Grant McLachlan - New Zealand Herald - Column
Sep 4, 20173 min read


NZ should raise the bar on corruption
Click here to view the original article. Nicky Hager's exposure of the underside of politics led to his privacy being violated by police....

Grant McLachlan - New Zealand Herald - Column
Mar 9, 20174 min read


No fault and no responsibility
We have a no fault system for personal injury and, in the light of the Havelock North water contamination epidemic,has ACC made us gormless?

Grant McLachlan - Hawke's Bay Today - Column
Aug 31, 20163 min read


Wowsers unite communities (against them)
"Wowser: an ineffably pious person who mistakes this world for a penitentiary and himself for a warder." - C.J. Dennis

HUMAN NATURE: Grant McLachlan - Stuff - Column
Nov 5, 20103 min read


The carrot and the stick
Young lawyer treats council to plates of humble brussel sprouts. Every now and again the New Plymouth District Council gets a jolly good telling off. Sometimes they deserve it too and Tuesday night's council meeting was one of those occasions. For the second time this year a smart young lawyer turned up and quoted all sorts of legal stuff and in the process pointed out bits and pieces that the council had got wrong. On the first occasion it was pointed out that chicken po

Gordon Brown - Taranaki Daily News
May 1, 20094 min read


Hawke's Bay battler for the little people
To view the original article, please click here. For Grant McLachlan, saving Battiscombe Tce's gardens is just one more battle in his campaign to stand up for the little guy. The Hawke's Bay-based professional planner and qualified lawyer travelled to New Plymouth on Tuesday to make a submission against the removal of 12 gardens encroaching on New Plymouth District Council reserve land on Waitara's Battiscombe Tce. The gardens had been due for removal yesterday. Mr McLach

Matt Rilkoff - Taranaki Daily News
Apr 30, 20092 min read


























