Our national RMA / Environmental Planning Team deliver professional planning services to help you navigate the environmental regulatory process. We have experience across local government, infrastructure, including river and coastal works, 3 waters, roading, consent processing, industrial, waste management, commercial, agriculture, agri-business sectors, and marine and coastal works.
Services that we provide:
- Planning assessments
- Resource consent applications including the preparation of Assessment of Environmental Effects (AEE)
- Community and iwi consultation
- Policy and Plan development, monitoring and review
- Resource consent processing on behalf of local government
- Development of corporate environmental policy
- Identification of “gaps” in existing management systems
- Identification of significant environmental effects and legal requirements
- Environmental audits (e.g. to assess compliance with statutory and other requirements for pre-purchase inspections and due diligence tests)
- Development of objectives, targets and environmental programmes to improve environmental performance
- Development of procedures to implement an EMS
- Environmental training for staff and contractors
- Carbon management services
- Developing solutions for sustainable development
- Site selection and risk management
Our specialists can help you obtain a resource consent.
- Preparation of Assessment of Environmental Effects documents, resource consent application and project management
- Technical assessments for environmental impacts on ground, water and air
- Coordination of technical inputs to resource consent applications
- Consent processing for district and regional councils
- Public and iwi consultation
- Submissions to planning documents, legislation and consent applications
- Expert evidence at council and Environment Court hearings
- Negotiation of resource consent conditions with Council Staff