Rural land and water
Land-use, water and discharge consents; rural due diligence; rivers and gravel; farm environmental requirements; compliance and consent conditions.
View rural land and water services →Planning services
Specialist advice where land, water, development and regulation meet.
A project may start with a resource consent, a subdivision idea, a compliance problem or a difficult letter from a council. The useful question is what must happen next—and which technical, statutory and commercial issues need to be joined together.
Crown, conservation and high-country land
Pastoral leases and licences, LINZ land, DOC concessions, grazing proposals, access arrangements, diversification and conservation/recreation planning.
View high-country and conservation services →Subdivision and development
Feasibility, concept planning, applications and project leadership for small and medium subdivision and land-development projects.
View subdivision and development services →Hearings and difficult planning matters
Expert evidence, submissions, section 92 responses, contested consent conditions, multidisciplinary teams, policy work and appeal support with legal counsel.
View hearings and strategy services →How work begins
Scope the decision before assembling the machinery.
An initial review identifies the statutory pathway, evidence gaps, key decision-makers, project dependencies and likely cost drivers. That may be enough to stop a poor acquisition, reshape a proposal, or give the wider consultant team a disciplined brief.
1. Understand the objective
What must the land or consent enable in practical and commercial terms?
2. Identify the controlling issues
Which rules, effects, evidence and relationships will determine the outcome?
3. Build the proportionate team
Engage surveying, engineering, ecology, legal or other inputs only where the pathway requires them.
Not sure which category your problem belongs in?
That is normal. Describe the land, decision or outcome and Peter will identify the likely planning pathway.