Resource Management / Environmental

Our resource management team has a solid reputation for successfully delivering significant projects in New Zealand. We have national reach and represent clients across the country.

We provide strategic advice and representation on significant projects, complex and controversial district and regional planning review process and environmental due diligence.  Our team has built a reputation on providing an efficient client focused service that consistently achieves results.

We are regularly involved in mediation and other alternative dispute resolution processes, public hearings before local authorities, the Environment Court and the High Court.

Our team has developed a well-established trusted network of strong working relationships with New Zealand’s leading consultants and expert witnesses. We regularly lead large teams of consultants in delivering the outcomes that our clients seek.

We have experience across a wide variety of fields and issues. We are particularly recognised for our retail, minerals and energy, land subdivision and development, and tangata whenua expertise.

Some of our recent highlights include:

Woolworths New Zealand Limited

Obtaining resource consent for several Countdown supermarket developments around the South Island including coordinating teams of expert witnesses and acting as lead counsel at publicly notified hearings. We have also advised Woolworths on numerous plan formulation and review proceedings across the country including Christchurch, Dunedin, Kapiti and Selwyn.

Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu

Advising and representing Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu in the development of the Marlborough Environmental Plan, Dunedin 2GP and Christchurch Replacement Plan. This has included Environment Court appeals in all three regions. During these proceedings our team has advocated on significant cultural matters as well landscape, biodiversity and freshwater issues.

Bathurst Resources Limited and BT Mining Limited

Providing strategic advice on plan-making, resource consenting and enforcement matters in respect of Bathurst Resources and BT Mining’s operations across New Zealand, including the West Coast Regional Policy Statement, Waikato District Plan Review and Waikato Regional Policy Statement. This has involved large scale mediations and negotiations through complex resource management issues relating to environmental bottom lines, offsetting and plan drafting.

Cardrona Alpine Resort Limited

Advising Cardrona Alpine Resort Limited on the Proposed Queenstown Lakes District Plan, including in relation to its appeal to the Environment Court. This has involved the successful negotiation and agreement of an enabling regime for an expanded ski resort development in a nationally significant Outstanding Natural Landscape context.