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Toitū Te Whenua works with Te Kāhui Whakatau (part of the Office for Māori Crown Relations – Te Arawhiti) to manage surplus Crown properties in the Treaty Settlements Landbank.

From January 2023 Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) will take on responsibility for managing the NZ Localities dataset.

The demolition of the former Masterton hospital is in its final stages, with only four buildings left to come down.

This edition of Pānui includes our top tips for smooth sailing when it comes to fresh or seawater areas, invite you to attend our webinar about the types of real estate transactions that require our consent, and list our recent decision summaries.

In this edition: survey and title processing times improving, new Cadastral Survey Guidelines on Legalisation CSDs, majority of councils now using Notice of Change service.

In late February, we advised stakeholders and Landonline users of delays processing survey and title transactions. Figures for April show Toitū Te Whenua is making good progress bringing survey and title transaction processing times to within 10 working days.

The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has announced decisions from its April hui, including corrections to existing Māori place names and making fifteen undersea feature names official.

New legislation to improve the management of Crown pastoral land and end tenure review was passed in Parliament yesterday.

Consultation on the name for a new lake on Mangapōike River is closing on 16 May

This month’s Pānui discusses the High Court judgment which upheld an earlier decision to grant CDL Land New Zealand Limited consent to buy land near Havelock North for residential development, and includes our recent decision summaries.

A tenure review agreement has been reached for high country station Dunstan Downs that will see 99 percent of the Crown pastoral lease become conservation land.

Only remnants of the former Barrett St hospital remain after demolition resumed earlier this year.