Martin Geoffrey Green
Cambridge
Summary
- A highly motivated and experienced planning and local government professional with commercial acumen. Characterised as a low key and effective professional committed to quality outcomes.
- A career spanning 41 years involving a wide range of complex matters resolved in a mutually satisfactory manner.
- I adopt a pragmatic approach which is customer focused and concerned with finding solutions.
- I am a strategist able to recognise and compartmentalise the components of an issue, to enable orderly and rational decision-making and problem solving.
- My approach is that to get it right means first developing an overall development vision of the concept. Importantly that it is essential to work closely at the front end of the process with stake holders.
- It is my philosophy that if effort is put in the front end of the process to resolve and refine the proposition that the outcomes are inevitably a win – win.
- It has been my advice that it is the stronger approach to negotiate than try to fix. That compromise is a smarter approach than conflict.
- If this outcome is to be achieved that it is essential to understand the complexities of the stakeholders and their needs.
- An able communicator with highly developed written and oral presentation skills.
- An experienced expert witness familiar with key regulatory legislation.
- An experienced manager of people.
- A broad familiarity with Tikanga Māori including Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Te Mana o Te Wai and an understanding of Te Ao Māori
Overview
41
41
years of professional experience
Work History
Director
Green Group Limited
01.1995 - Current
Director managing a small business with up to 6 staff in a profitable manner providing professional town planning, resource management, local government and development advice and associated services to a diverse cliental ranging from corporates to high-net-worth individuals.
In-house Consultant Law Firm
Knight Coldicutt Barristers & Solicitors
01.1997 - 01.2002
Providing town planning and local government advice to the law firm which was engaged in assisting and arranging funding for many property developers in central Auckland particularly in the Auckland CBD. Engaging in due diligence and offering independent advice on resource consents to second tier funding agents.
Development Services Manager
Auckland City Council
01.1992 - 01.1994
Responsible for management of planning, building, environmental health. Street trading, liquor licensing regulatory services for eastern suburbs and CBD of Auckland City. Staff management, budgeting control, delegated authority, regular meetings Mayor of Auckland, Community Board Chair, other senior Councillors, weekly meeting Chief Executive, discharging various delegations. Attendance at public meetings as council representative. Attendance on Board and Council meetings as required.
Manager Planning and Inspections
Auckland Council
01.1990 - 01.1992
Responsible for planning and regulatory matters in the Hauraki Gulf including all of the Gulf Islands, the DOC estate and the inhabited Islands of Waiheke, Great Barrier, and Rakino. Responsible for 5 staff and was part of the management team. Reporting to Waiheke Planning Committee and Community Board.
Planner
Western Bay Of Plenty District Council
01.1987 - 01.1990
Responsible for managing the review of the WBOPDC district plan review on a contractual basis for two years
Planner
Tauranga County Council
01.1984 - 01.1987
Day to day administration of the district scheme including, rural and residential issues as well as subdivision.
Planner
Auckland City Council
01.1982 - 01.1984
District Scheme administration. Drafting reports on planning matters, attendance at various committees. Policy work on the Central Area plan.
Education
Bachelor in Regional Planning - B.R.P (1981)
Full Member of The New Zealand Planning Institute
Massey University
Responsibilities
- Responsibility for up to 120 regulatory staff as Development Services Manager for the Hobson Office of the Auckland Council including, 30 statutory planners. 15 environmental health staff, 35 building staff, 3 street trading staff, the liquor licencing group, and various administrative staff, casuals, and planning consultants.
- Managing and mentoring junior planning staff and interns at our consultancy.
- Administered division budget of $3 - 5 million for the Hobson office of Auckland Council’s development services group including income budget for regulatory function as well as expenditure and monitoring and development of a City-wide function budget.
- Meeting with the CEO and Mayor of Auckland Council on a weekly basis to discuss planning and regulatory issues that would arise o Managing staff performance and KPIs.
Achievements
- Preparation of an estimated 1500+ applications for resource consents ranging from CBD buildings to rural subdivisions, and coastal consents, across the country.
- Preparation of applications for over 2000 apartments in fringe centre city locations, high rise towers, and brown fields site. o Preparation of application for some of Auckland’s largest dwellings including the “Hotchin house’ at Paritai Drive, Auckland, and the Delegat House at Selwyn Avenue.
- Auckland Council liaison for the Auckland leg of the 1993 – 94 Whitbread around the world yacht race.
- Auckland Council regulatory contact for the construction of the Skycity Casino and Skytower development.
- At one stage having over $500,000,000 worth of development being processed for clients in my consultancy office including apartments, commercial buildings, and supermarket developments.
- Successfully obtaining resource consents for the iconic Metropolis Building Auckland CBD o Successfully obtaining resource consents for Princes Wharf residential commercial development Auckland CBD in two months on a non-notified basis comprising a large number of apartments and commercial spaces whilst retaining the site as a working cruise ship wharf in conjunction with the Ports of Auckland. Consent was required from the Regional Council.
- Processed several hundred applications for consent as a council officer and as a planning consultant on behalf of Auckland Council.
- Administered the preparation of the 1989 Western Bay of Plenty District Council District Scheme, including preparation of various reports and attendance on council hearings.
- Numerous attendances before local government hearing panels as an expert witness.
- Prepared submissions to and attended on hearings before the Independent Hearings Panel for the Auckland Unitary Plan 2013 – 2016.
- Prepared evidence for judicial review hearings before the High Court o Panel member on the interim liquor licencing authority issuing interim sale of liquor licences at Auckland Council for the CBD.
- Attended as an expert witness before the Environment Court on district plan appeals and appeals over land use consents, and declarations on many occasions.
- Attended as an expert witness before the Liquor Licencing Authority.
- Attended as an expert witness before the Land Valuation Tribunal.
- Appeared as a council officer (Manager) in the District Court to give evidence in prosecutions brought under the Resource Management Act 1991 by the Local Authority.
- Appeared as an expert witness in defence of prosecutions brought against parties in terms of the Resource Management Act 1991 in the District Court and the Environment Court.
- Appeared as an expert witness before the Planning Tribunal as it was pre-1991.
- Experience with the Resource Management Act, Various National Environmental Standards, National Policy Statements, the Local Government Act, to a limited degree the Building Act, the Sale of Liquor Act, and various other technical regulatory publications.
- Familiar with The Water Services Entities Bill as it currently sits.
- Familiar with the processes of transition between significantly different legislative approaches to planning and resource management having successfully transitioned between the Town & Country Planning Act 1977 and the Resource Management Act 1991 and all of which that entails.
- Successfully running a profitable small business for 30 years.
- Providing planning assistance to the Brain Injury Association, The Leukaemia Foundation, and the Waiheke Island Golf Club pro bono to help them with their planning issues.
- Trained Planning Commissioner (my qualification is not current).
Timeline
In-house Consultant Law Firm
Knight Coldicutt Barristers & Solicitors
01.1997 - 01.2002
Director
Green Group Limited
01.1995 - Current
Development Services Manager
Auckland City Council
01.1992 - 01.1994
Manager Planning and Inspections
Auckland Council
01.1990 - 01.1992
Planner
Western Bay Of Plenty District Council
01.1987 - 01.1990
Planner
Tauranga County Council
01.1984 - 01.1987
Planner
Auckland City Council
01.1982 - 01.1984
Bachelor in Regional Planning - B.R.P (1981)
Full Member of The New Zealand Planning Institute
Massey University
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