Matthew Conway

Matt provides strategic advice and representation in environmental regulatory processes.

He helps clients navigate processes under the Resource Management Act 1991 and related legislation, including:

• Creating, changing, understanding and applying district and regional plans and regional policy statements that set frameworks for what activities can be done, where and how

• Managing biodiversity, freshwater quantity and quality, air quality and coastal hazards

• Planning for the impacts of climate change

• Designating and consenting energy and infrastructure projects onshore and offshore

• Obtaining consents for urban development and other land use activities, water takes, and discharges to air, land, and water

• Marine consenting under the Exclusive Economic Zone (Environmental Effects) Act 2012

• Enforcement, declarations and appeals

• Advising on law reform

• Environmental due diligence

• Applications under the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011

• Finding solutions to legal challenges and disputes about all of the above

Member of the Resource Management Law Association

Member of Water New Zealand

Associate Member of the New Zealand Planning Institute

Updating author of Brookers Resource Management