Peter is a resource management planner with over 45 years’ experience and a now retired full member of the New Zealand Planning Institute.
He is a skilled and experienced planner who uses his broad consulting and local authority experience to now focus on plan and plan change making, hearings and decisions, as a hearing commissioner, a planner and a mentor.
Since establishing PlanWrite in November 2017, Peter's work has included assisting with community collaboration in connection with a plan change process; undertaking a peer review of a plan change to the Hawke's Bay Regional Resource Management Plan; assistance to a unitary authority on aspects of plan architecture and provision drafting for a plan change concerning freshwater management; provision of technical advice and peer reviewing of the proposed Otago Regional Policy Statement; and provision of technical advice and staff mentoring in respect of a plan change to incorporate by reference a code of engineering practice into a district plan.
Prior to this (from 2011 to 2017) Peter was employed at Environment Canterbury. He was responsible for guiding the following through the plan development processes: Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan (LWRP); six plan changes to the LWRP; one change to the Waitaki Catchment Water Allocation Regional Plan; and the Canterbury Air Regional Plan.
Peter is available to assist in the following areas:
Hearing commissioner – Peter is accredited and holds the chair endorsement.
Planner assisting a hearing panel – assisting hearing panels to understand implications of proposed decisions; assistance with the panel’s redrafting of plan provisions during their deliberations; preparation of the decisions table (being decisions on each submission point); and editing the panel’s decision report.
Planner assisting council in a technical advisory/peer review role during the preparation of plans and plan changes, Section 32 Reports, the Summary Of Decisions Requested, Section 42A reports.
Peter is also able to assist clients with due diligence investigations and peer reviews of Resource Management Act documents – applications, submissions, private plan changes and notices of requirement.
See Peter’s CV here.