Planning

Our resource management and environmental planning team is committed to collaboration and integrated delivery.

We deliver an integrated, pragmatic, and value-driven service that draws from our in-house expertise providing support across a range of RMA projects, from due diligence and resource consenting to compliance management and auditing. We have experienced planners across New Zealand, ensuring effective assistance to clients wherever their projects are located.

Services that we provide:

RMA due diligence and consenting strategy

Scoping, scheme and feasibility planning
Identifying suitable sites for your project from an RMA perspective
Confirming the consenting requirements for your project
Assessing consenting risks and how these risks can be managed through the consenting process
Developing consenting strategy for an efficient consenting process

Resource consent applications and assessment of environmental effects (AEE)

Pre-application meetings with councils
Preparing resource consent applications and AEE’s
Advising on and managing technical inputs from specialists
Drafting/reviewing resource consent conditions
Presenting expert planning evidence at Council and Environment Court Hearings and attending mediation on behalf of the client
Processing resource consent applications on behalf of local government clients

Consultation, mediation, and conflict resolution

Managing iwi engagement and liaison throughout the consenting process
Preparing consultation strategies
Landowner/affected party consultation
Managing community liaison groups

Policy development and plan changes

Preparing private and public plan change documents
Preparing submissions to plan changes
Presenting expert planning evidence at Council Hearings and attending mediation on behalf of clients
Policy research

Environmental management & compliance

Preparing environmental management plans
Managing compliance with resource consent conditions
Conducting independent compliance audits, e.g. Green St

Related projects

Re-consenting for the Russell Wastewater Treatment Plant

PDP has been undertaking a significant resource re-consenting package for the Russell Wastewater Treatment Plant for the Far Noth District Council (FNDC).

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