Thursday, 13 March 2025
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Mike Doesburg, Partner, Wynn Williams
Infrastructure: Consents to Development Applications
- Planning & consenting
- Infrastructure consenting for climate targets
- Fast Track legislation
- Outcome of the Fast Track Approvals Bill (which is due to be passed by the end of this year) and projects that are being progressed under that
Presented by Jennifer Caldwell, Partner, Buddle Finlay
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the planning and consenting pathways available for infrastructure projects, including updates on the Fast Track Approvals Bill
- Learn how climate targets and national policy influence infrastructure consents and project progression
Presenters
Mike Doesburg, Partner, Wynn WilliamsMike is a resource management and environmental law specialist who advises private developers, infrastructure providers and local authorities. Mike has experience advising on obtaining and implementing resource consents for large and complex subdivision proposals. Mike also regularly acts for clients on complex planning matters, including appearing before council panels, the Environment Court and High Court. Mike has been identified by Legal 500 as a Next Generation Partner in projects and resource management. Mike is the Chair of the Resource Management Law Association Auckland Branch Committee and Co-Convener of the Auckland District Law Society Environmental and Resource Management Committee.
Jennifer Caldwell, Partner, Buddle Findlay
Jennifer is recognised as a leading New Zealand lawyer in the resource management, environmental and infrastructure sector, with over 30 years' experience acting as a strategic adviser and advocate on numerous complex consent and designation projects, as well as statutory planning processes. Her recent areas of focus have been fast-track consenting under the Fast-track Approvals Act 2024, as an Associate Panel Convener appointed by Cabinet, and leading her second professional services alliance (as Programme Director for the Supporting Growth Alliance) to the successful delivery of over 60 transport designations to support Auckland's future growth. Jennifer has been activity advising a range of clients and sector groups on the implications and mechanics of RMA reform, and has developed a particular interest in spatial planning as a means of aligning infrastructure planning and implementation with investment.
