Mark is responsible for growing our Wellington office and building relationships with our clients. He has 30+ years' experience gained in consulting and local, regional and central government. Mark's skills include impact assessment, district and regional planning and preparing and presenting expert evidence.

 

He still has direct input to some of our clients' projects where his background in working on extremely complicated consent acquisition projects is invaluable. Major projects that Mark has worked on in the past include acquiring consents for prisons, youth justice facilities, wind farms and central city office developments.

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An important part of Mark's role as a professional planner involves him acting as an expert witness at council hearings and the Environment Court. Keen to keep himself at the coal face of significant decision making, Mark is also certified as an independent hearings commissioner and Chair. He regularly sits on resource consent hearing panels.

 

Mark is 4Sight’s national sector lead for Renewable Energy. He was a member of the NZ Wind Energy Association Board from 2004-2007 and 2020-2022, and received an award from the Resource Management Law Association (RMLA) for policy work in relation to planning for wind energy. He served several terms on the Wellington Branch committee of the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI), and is also an occasional member of interview panels for planners seeking full membership of the Institute.