Resource Management Law
We acknowledge the challenges that individuals and organisations can face when trying to navigate resource management issues without specialist support. We provide advice on resource management law and how it relates to your business or property, including:
- Obtaining resource consents, plan changes, certificates of compliance and existing use, designations or other environmental approvals
- Preparation and advice on district and regional plans, policy statements, and submissions on plan changes
- Compliance and liability issues including defending enforcement proceedings and resource management prosecutions
- Resource consents
- Interpretation of district and regional plan requirements
- Due diligence for property transactions
- The interrelationship of Treaty of Waitangi and resource management law, and implications for landowners and iwi
- Representation at Local Authority and Environment Court
- Preparation and presentation of submissions in opposition to resource management applications
- Strategic, policy and practical advice on resource management issues
