Our resource management and environmental law specialists are involved in some of the most complex, challenging, and innovative developments in New Zealand.
What differentiates our team is our sheer depth and breadth of expertise and our track record of getting great business outcomes for our clients.
We work alongside professionals such as landscape architects, ecologists, traffic engineers, planners and a whole raft of other experts to ensure our clients are in the best possible position to achieve their goals.
We are recognised by clients and independent bodies as having New Zealand’s leading team of specialists in the resource management and environmental law area. We were awarded the ‘Resource Management and Environment Specialist Practice of the Year’ title at the inaugural New Zealand Law Awards, and again in November 2006.
Our clients say we ‘are competent’, ‘have a real drive to see the job done’, ‘get the outcomes’, have ‘good depth’, and are ‘personable’.
If you want your project to have the best possible chance of success, talk to the team that’s best equipped to make it happen. Contact one of our partners listed below to discuss how we might be able to help.
Recent examples of the work of our Team include:
- District Plan Change and roading realignment associated with the proposed Dunedin Stadium development
- Achieving consents for Rangitata South Irrigation Limited to construct and operate a community irrigation scheme on the south side of the Rangitata River, near Arundel
- Advising developers and providing representation on the proposed changes to the Resource Management Act
- Preparing submissions for clients in relation to the proposed urban limit plan change 1 by Environment Canterbury
- Advising a joint venture comprising CDL Land New Zealand, Ngai Tahu Property Limited and Foodstuffs South Island on "Prestons", Christchurch's latest and largest housing development involving construction of 2500 new homes on 203 hectares in the Marshlands area of Christchurch
- Successfully achieving resource consent approval for a 18 hole Championship Golf Course and resort on 180 hectare site west of Glendu Bay, Wanaka for Parkins Bay Preserve Limited
- Consents achieved for the construction and development of Holcim NZ's proposed cement works situated at Weston, outside Oamaru
Our services include
- Climate change
- Consents and approvals
- Conservation estate
- District and Regional plans
- Due diligence and environmental audits
- Energy
- Environment Court representations
- Infrastructure
- Maori and Treaty of Waitangi issues
- Mining
- Project management
- Prosecution and enforcement
- Tourism
- Water rights
Partners
- Jen Crawford
- Phone: 03 335 1265
- Lauren Semple
- Phone: 03 471 5428
- Also: 03 335 1201
- Maree Baker-Galloway
- Phone: 03 471 5447
- Mark Christensen
- Phone: 03 335 1218
- Michael Garbett
- Phone: 03 467 7173
- Stephen Christensen
- Phone: 03 471 5430
- Vanessa Robb
- Phone: 03 450 0701
Consultants
- Warwick Goldsmith
- Phone: 03 450 0700
Associates
- Annabel Ritchie
- Phone: 03 450 0728
- Fiona McLeod
- Phone: 03 545 6292
- Jackie St John
- Phone: 03 477 3973
- Monique Thomas
- Phone: 03 335 1232
- Rachel Brooking
- Phone: 03 467 7183
- Sarah Barnes
- Phone: 03 364 9225
- Sarah Eveleigh
- Phone: 03 335 1217
Solicitors
- Beth McAuley
- Phone: 03 335 1209
- Sam Hutchings
- Phone: 03 335 1261
- William Jennings
- Phone: 03 471 5493
Publications
- Department of Conservation - Concession Processing Review
- Restricted Discretionary Activities – Are they really?
- Local Government Amendment Bill
- Restricted Discretionary Activities
- Aquaculture Reform
- Aquaculture Law Reform
- Draft Canterbury Water Management Strategy
- Fixing the RMA – Simplify and Streamline - Rural Professionals Conference Special
- Government's Proposed National Environmental Standard will Restrict the Future Development of Contaminated Land
- Canterbury Water Conservation Order Changes
- Environmental Protection Authority
- Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Bill
- Aquaculture Reform Update
- Proposed National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry
- Commentary on New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement 2010
- Regulations on the Measurement and Reporting of Water Takes
- Environmental Protection Authority Bill
- Fleetwing Revisited
- First Dibs to the Last Drop
- Select Committee Report on the Environmental Protection Authority
- National Policy Statement on Renewable Electricity Generation
- Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Bill Update
- Commentary on the Freshwater Management 2011 National Policy Statement
- Draft Recovery Strategy for Greater Christchurch
- Existing Use Rights and the Draft Christchurch Central City Plan
- Summary of the Amendments to the Environment Court Practice Note 2011
- Build Green Christchurch
- Water Rights and Partial Asset Sales
- Water Quality in New Zealand: Understanding the Science
- Water Quality in New Zealand - PCE Report
- Otago Water Quality – Proposed Plan Change 6A
- Southland Dairy Conversions Require Consent
