Hon DAVID PARKER: The Natural and Built Environments Act will better protect environmental outcomes and limits via a mandatory set of national direction. At the same time, there will be less emphasis on subjective amenity values to assist development in built areas. A single NBEA plan for each region will reduce the number of plans from over 100 to about 14. The Strategic Planning Act will sit above the NBEA, and under it there will be long-term regional spatial strategies developed to help integrate decisions under the NBEA, the Land Transport Management Act, the Local Government Act, and the Climate Change Response Act.