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Tim Fischer
BSc LLB • Auckland
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Tim is experienced in all aspects of resource management law, including subdivision, land-use and property development, infrastructure projects, plan-making, and designations. He acts for local authorities, corporates, and developers.
Tim also has experience with public law matters and the wider legislative framework affecting the local government sector through the work he has done with local authorities. This work has traversed a wide range of legal matters, from information issues through to alcohol policy and regulation.
Work Highlights
Auckland Council
Successfully defending Environment Court and High Court appeals against the Council’s decision to retain an Outstanding Natural Feature and land containing elite soils outside the Rural Urban Boundary under the Auckland Unitary Plan.
Waikato Regional Council
Conducting appeals before the Environment Court in relation to Plan Change 1, one of the largest plan changes of its kind, seeking to reduce the amount of contaminants entering into the Waikato and Waipā catchments.
Tauranga City Council
Advice and representation in relation to plan changes relating to flood hazard management and earthworks, including Environment Court appeals.
Tauranga City Council
Successfully defending judicial review proceedings challenging the Council’s decision to grant consent for a mixed-use development without public notification.
Tauranga City Council
Successful appeal to the Environment Court against the decision of requiring authority rejecting the imposition of a financial contribution as a condition of designation.
Far North District Council
Advice and representation in relation to the district plan review currently underway.
Watercare Services Limited
Successfully obtaining consent for the new South-West Sub-Regional Wastewater treatment plant.
Watercare Services Limited
Successful prosecution and sentencing of offender on four charges for unlawfully taking of water in breach of the relevant bylaw and the Health Act 1956.
Port Blakely
Conducting Environment Court proceedings to determine the landscape status of Matakana Island in the Western Bay of Plenty, a proposed plan change affecting significant forestry holdings on Matakana Island and a resource consent application to subdivide significant forestry land holdings.
Auckland Council
Conducting appeals before the Alcohol and Regulatory and Licensing Authority in relation to the Provisional Local Alcohol Policy, defending applications for judicial review of the Authority’s decision, and subsequent appeals to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
