Lane Neave

Resource Management / Environmental

Joshua is a resource management and environmental lawyer, with extensive experience across a range of projects and transactions. He leads Lane Neave’s national resource management team. Before joining Lane Neave he worked at a major New Zealand law firm.

He regularly advises on the development of nationally significant projects under the Resource Management Act and associated legal regimes across New Zealand. He and his experienced team also provide a wide range of associated project development and commercial property related advice, including on overseas investments in New Zealand involving sensitive land.

Joshua’s clients include major property development and investment companies, iwi, and businesses with significant land use requirements. He acts on many of New Zealand’s most contentious resource management projects, which are summarised here.

Joshua is well connected to experienced result driven expert witnesses in New Zealand’s resource management industry and has a commercially focused approach. He brings a unique skill set to assist clients.

Joshua is ranked as a leading Environment & Resource Management Lawyer in the 2022 Doyle’s Guide for New Zealand.