Robert Harris

Experience

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  Tasmanhill Landscaping and Planning Ltd (Tasmanhill Ltd)

  Jan 2005 - now

  Consultant/Director

  Provide advice to clients on project management, environmental, resource management, strategic planning, landscape design, heritage garden restoration and restoration and remediation of natural areas. I have been an accredited planning hearings commissioner and still provide facilitation, community mediation services (e.g. fencing, access, trees, environmental issues). Part of my role in the resource management context is preparing applications for resource consent, providing evidence at hearings, commenting on reports and writing submissions and preparing assessments. I also review KPIs, prepare State of Environment reports and otherwise write and edit documents requiring technical and interpretative skills. Other skillsets and experience relate to landscape and specialist garden restoration skills and experience, also biodiversity/biosecurity matters and reserves management planning.I have also worked on local government matters ranging from preparing amalgamation proposals to long term plans and asset management documentation . Show less

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  Franklin District Council

  Jan 2009 - Oct 2010

  District Planning Manager

  I coordinated the District Plan review and subsequent plan changes in the period prior to the amalgamation with Auckland. I also had input into regional spatial planning, helped resolve over 40 appeals on the Plan and had input into the then district economic strategy. This was a transition period prior to the District's restructuring and division between three successor councils. My role was also to ensure a smooth planning legacy occurred and the staff transferred to successor organisations.

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  Waikato Regional Council

  Nov 2010 - Jul 2011

  Consultant Adviser (co-management project)

  I advised on the set up of the Waikato River co-management project. This involved working with staff and iwi representatives to prepare the project management plan, draft agreements between iwi and the Council and carry out a risk assessment role in determining the risks likely to occur in a shift towards co-management of natural resources

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  Local Government Commission New Zealand

  Sept 2012 - Apr 2016

  Senior Advisor (strategic, policy)

  Analysis of local government re-organisation applications, preparation of reports for the Commission, assessment of local authority capacity and preparation of proposals for consultation.

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  Tasmanhill Landscaping & Planning Ltd

  Apr 2016 - now

  Director/Consultant/Contractor

  Principal advisor/contractor - environmental and resource management services and specialist garden, landscape and restoration services

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  NZ Transport Agency

  Jun 2016 - Dec 2016

  Pricinpal Advisor

  Advisor dealing with the planning benefits of the Petone to Grenada route, plus analysing Top of the South transport issues and screening applications for access onto the state highway system.

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  Department of Corrections- NZ

  Jan 2018 - Jun 2018

  Land Management Senior Advisor (temp)

  Dealing with infrastructure, land tenure, planning and Treaty matters relating to prison lands