Experience and Expertise

Hearing Commissioner appointments

Simon Berry has frequently been appointed as a hearing commissioner to sit (either alone or with Councillors or other independent hearing commissioners) to determine resource consent applications, designation requirements, etc., under the RMA and is certified to sit as a commissioner, having passed the MFE/LGNZ training and certifcation course "Making Good Decisions". Such appointments have related to:


North Eastern Investments Limited.

Franklin District Council – Plan Change 24 (Chair).

Applications by Contact Energy and Geotherm in relation to Wairakei geothermal resource (Chair).

Application to subdivide and to establish industrial estate at Taupo (Chair).

Resource consents for Whangaripo Quarry expansion.

Resource consents for pest eradication at Tawhauranui Regional Park (Chair).

Designations for new Kopu Bridge (Chair).

Proposed marina at Tairua (Chair).

Resource consents for coastal defence structures at Whitianga.

Resource consents for Mokauiti and Wairere Falls hydro-electric scheme, King Country (Chair).

BP motorway service centre at Dairy Flat, Rodney District.

Comprehensive roading variation for Coromandel Peninsula.

Urban form variation in Whitianga.

Proposed service station at Whitianga (Sole Commissioner).

Subdivision and development of Harbour View Estate, Te Atatu Peninsula (Sole Commissioner).