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LAND ADMINISTRATION IN NEW ZEALAND 1
Land Administration System in New Zealand
Land administration system in New Zealand 2
Contents
1. Executive summary ................................................................................................................ 3
2. Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 4
3 Situation analysis and users and their requirements ............................................................... 4
4. Bottlenecks and areas of modifications ................................................................................. 8
5. SDI and land administrative functions ................................................................................... 9
6. Key strategy to improve land administration- ..................................................................... 11
7. Conclusions: ......................................................................................................................... 11
References: ............................................................................................................................... 13
Land administration system in New Zealand 3
1. Executive summary
This assignment will discuss the land administration system, property rights issues and tenure
security that prevails in New Zealand now (Bennett et al., 2012). Previously the dwellers in
the country had growth up with an ideology of having a secure and settled property regime
along with a sense of personal equality and sharing racial harmony. But this fair land
administrative mechanism is now a history by the recent property rights developments.
Restructuring the rural areas and increasing invasion of those areas for residential
development have led to change in legal and physical landscapes of New Zealand’s open
tussock high country (Bandeira et al., 2010). The administrative mechanism regarding
property that prevails recently has benefitted landowners but has created a significant ba
ier
to the New Zealanders whose income is low and who are thinking to purchase a property in
there.
The condition has also got into a serious level when non- Maori people of the country seek to
extinguish the customary rights of the Maori people in the foreshore and of the nature of land
ights in the country.
New Zealand is one of the developed countries which has although robust but flexible legal
system and with the increasing population, global market forces and environmental pressure,
it is expected that the view of customary rights and the way that Zealanders view the property
and land must be re-evaluated (Bennett et al., 2012).
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2. Introduction
Like it has been mentioned earlier, the prevalent land administrative system is failing to
provide the people of the country to have the access to the ecological, recreational, economic
and spiritual attributes.
The country has good soil, strong rural infrastructure, sufficient water and a favourable
climatic zone which has fostered high economy and productivity. It has a very diverse
tourism sector, recreational sector consisting of adventure playgrounds, comfortable
standards of living and thus the country’s people are strongly attracted to New Zealand
(Scholtz, 2013). But this affinity too creates a feeling into the New Zealanders that they are
ural outdoorsy beings inspite of thriving in one of the most highly u
anised nation and with
this concern several threats to the land are being made.
Although most of the country’s legislation support access to the land and conservation of the
same for public use with sustainable and efficient land management but recently there has
een arising questions regarding land rights and managements which need to be solved.
3 Situation analysis and users and their requirements
Land administration is done to manage society and to satisfy human needs. There exists
various types of informal systems to define land administration theory and in New Zealand
also it is common (Short et al., 2013). Moreover being a developed country, it also uses the
informal system among the traditional people, slum dwellers and other groups.
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Being a developed country, a question always triggers in the land administration system in
New Zealand and that is the capacity of u
anisation in the country. Commonly called u
an
sprawl, it has resulted in a vision image of rapid threatening development for overwhelming
the countryside (Land Information New Zealand, 2017). Recently the u
anisation in the
country accounts for 0.7% and 99.3% landmass is still underdeveloped today. As plenty of
land is available in New Zealand that doesn’t mean that all places will be u
anised as some
are good for farms while in some lands, nothing can be conducted.
Land policy defines how lands will be used taking the concerns of farm size, ownership and
tenure. The recent modifications made to reform the land policy of New...