services
Avanzar Consulting is committed to delivering effective solutions tailored to meet the individual needs of our clients. Our team has extensive expertise in all facets of resource management planning and transport engineering to ensure that you receive high quality advice on your project and can trust that the work that we carry out on your behalf is technically accurate and of high quality. We take a common sense approach to our work, and work with our clients to achieve their goals.
Integrated transport assessments
We undertake Integrated Transport Assessments to assess the potential transport impacts of a development and can recommend innovative design solutions to avoid and mitigate adverse impacts. Our transport engineers and planners work closely together to integrate land use and transport planning outcomes, and regularly prepare ITAs to support resource consent applications, plan changes or submissions.
Road Safety Audits
Avanzar Consulting has extensive experience in transport engineering and can provide independent peer review of road projects. We will consider the safety of all road users, and report on safety issues and opportunities for improvement. Avanzar Consulting has been involved in all stages of safety auditing from feasibility through to post construction. We work with local and national controlling authorities as well as developers.
Resource and subdivision consents
Resource and subdivision consent applications can be complicated if you are not familiar with the relevant legislation, plans and council practices, and delays can be costly. Our team is experienced in all facets of resource management planning and can help you navigate through the process of obtaining consents from your local or regional council.
Our team is familiar with the level of information required for various types of applications. We can advise on consenting strategy and prepare applications to meet statutory requirements, reducing the risk of delays to your project.
We can assist with pre-purchase site evaluations, scoping reports, preparation of resource consent applications of all types, assessments of effects, consultation, as well as the preparation and presentation of expert planning evidence at council hearings and the Environment Court.
Our experience includes planning and traffic engineering work relating to:
- Commercial and industrial developments including retail and office complexes, tourism activities and visitor accommodation,
- Healthcare facilities, retirement villages, educational and spiritual facilities,
- Mixed use developments,
- Work affecting heritage buildings
- Subdivision projects from simple two lot subdivisions to large multi density, master-planned developments,
- Rural subdivision and developments
- New dwellings and dwelling extensions
- Regional council approvals such as water and discharge permits.
Site development and advice
Choosing to develop land is a significant investment decision. Avanzar Consulting staff can help you to understand the development potential of your site, and the relevant zoning rules and requirements. We can undertake due diligence, site selection and feasibility studies to help you to make informed decisions and identify any potential obstacles.
Policy planning, research and analysis
Avanzar Consulting staff have extensive in undertaking planning policy and strategic plan development or reviews, as well as analysis of submissions on behalf of local authorities.
Research and analysis are critical components of this process. At Avanzar Consulting, we have extensive practical experience combined with academic rigour that ensures we carry out effective research and analysis to inform your project and give you a full understanding of issues and options.
Our staff have frequently been commissioned to prepare discussion documents to evaluate existing planning policy to determine what changes may be needed. Our staff are able to determine the difference between both perceived need and actual need for policy change and are able to provide carefully thought out and well constructed evaluations of policy.
Our staff have significant experience in rule and policy drafting. We are able to prepare rules packages that are clear, robust and are easy to understand. We are not interested in the creation of rules that only a planner or lawyer can understand, and take the view that District and Regional Plans and other documents should be created so that they are able to be understood and applied by all.
Our staff are also interested in ensuring that policy is robust. Our experience within the planning profession both in New Zealand and overseas has alerted us to what happens when the policy framework doesn’t work. We seek to avoid creating loopholes, through a systematic and careful assessment process, in which we apply our background as planning consultants to logically assess all policy proposals. Our overseas knowledge and enthusiasm for policy innovation also allows us to be creative, inventive and original, so that your policy breaks new ground, rather than merely repeating the same old concepts.
Furthermore, our staff are experienced in the design and management of the policy development process, and are able design and lead constructive consultation with stakeholders and the wider community. Our staff are keen to really listen to stakeholders, and to ensure that their views are taken into account. We approach the consultation process with respect and clarity, and are able to communicate and share ideas with the whole community.
Project Management
Avanzar Consulting is able to manage the provision of the key consultancy services required to develop a site successfully. We work in an integrated and collaborative manner within our multidisciplinary team and have excellent relationships with a range of preferred providers of additional services that may be such as surveyors, architects, landscape architects, urban designers, infrastructure designers and structural engineers.
At the beginning of every project, we will provide you with detailed costing estimates and timelines. We seek to provide accurate reporting on time spent and costs to you on an ongoing basis throughout your project.
Plan changes
We have experience in the preparation of district and regional plan changes for both private interests and local authorities. Our planners are experienced in dealing with all facets of the plan change process from start to finish, and can explain the intricacies of the process and deliver sound timely advice throughout your project.
We have been involved in the preparation of both large and small scale private plan changes for industrial developments, rural lifestyle developments and complex, large greenfields residential developments.
Research and analysis are critical components of this process. At Avanzar Consulting, we have extensive practical experience combined with academic rigour to deliver effective research and analysis to inform your project and give you a full understanding of issues and options.
submissions
Occasionally, you may find that your property may be adversely affected by a development occurring close by. It can become difficult to contend with the pressures that can be placed on you. In this situation, it is worth seeking professional advice to ensure that you deal with these situations in a clear, tactical and measured way.
It’s also vital to ensure that your submission in either support or opposition to any development is prepared in such a way that it does not limit your future options.
We have extensive experience in assisting our clients with the preparation of submissions relating to consent applications, and local authority plans, policies and strategies. Our insights will allow you to accurately identify the issues that affect you, and to clearly articulate them in a way that is meaningful and respected throughout the process.
master planning
Well designed communities with qualities that will attract buyers, designed in such a way that minimises cost and maximises profit, while also ensuring that environmental effects are minimised, are are hard to find. Often new neighbourhoods are designed in a way that does not take into account the practicalities of urban life, and do not reflect the aspirations of purchasers.
Our staff take a different approach to the master-planning process, and prefer to focus on innovative outcomes that reflect the needs of the specific type of community being proposed.
Our staff aren’t afraid to work with you to develop designs and plans that do not necessary reflect the current ‘trends’, and instead aim to assist in the master-planning process by seeking to understand the needs and wants of all of the future community being created. Our understanding of the needs of the developer, and constraints of budget, infrastructure and time, as well as our broad approach to master planning, will allow your development to stand out from the crowd and not be merely a repeat of the uninspiring designs currently being developed across New Zealand.
Its important also to note, that master-planning is helpful for both very small scale developments as well as large scale developments, and that we can tailor our input into the early master-planning and design phases of a project, at a scale and budget to suit you.