Monday, 1 September 2025
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 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
Stephanie Aquilina-Little, Senior Associate, Jackson Russell Lawyers
*Original Content was created in September 2024
Learning Objectives:
- Identify recent and proposed reforms to the Resource Management Act (RMA) affecting subdivisions
- Understand how proposed planning changes, including Medium Density Residential Standards, impact urban development and subdivision approvals
THE LATEST UPDATES IMPACTING SUBDIVISIONS: Update on Resource Management Issues Affecting Subdivisions
- Overview of recent and proposed changes to the RMA relating to urban development
- Proposed changes to the planning framework relating to the Medium Density Residential Standards
Presented by Kate Storer, Special Counsel, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
Presenters
Stephanie Aquilina-Little, Senior Associate, Jackson Russell LawyersStephanie is the senior associate in Jackson Russell’s property team. She has experience in providing end-to-end solutions for a wide range of property matters helping clients navigate the complex legal landscape of property transactions. Stephanie has experience acting for vendors and purchasers in the sale and purchase of residential and commercial properties - including extensive due diligence reporting; acting for landlords and tenants in leasing transactions and disputes; easement issues; subdivisions and property development projects; boundary adjustments; financing and refinancing; drafting and advising on wills and enduring powers of attorney and acting on unit title matters for both bodies corporate and unit owners. Stephanie is a member of the Auckland Women Lawyers' Association (and a past treasurer), the Auckland District Law Society, the Women in Property division of the Property Council NZ, and the Property Law Section of the New Zealand Law Society, she is also a past member of the board of trustees for St Ignatius Catholic School. Stephanie speaks fluent french, having lived and worked in France with her family for several years.
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Kate Storer, Special Counsel, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
Kate is an environmental and resource management lawyer with more than 10 years’ experience advising public and private sector clients on all areas of resource management law. Before joining MinterEllisonRuddWatts, Kate was a partner at a specialist resource management firm in Auckland. Kate works with clients on the full breadth of resource management issues, including in the urban development, infrastructure, industrial, forestry and agriculture sectors. She has expertise in advising on major development projects, including in particular rezoning and consenting large-scale greenfield urban development, mines and quarries. She has chaired three fast track panels for solar farm projects, under the Covid 19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act 2020 and the Natural and Built Environment Act 2023.
