Tompkins Wake

Environment and Resource Management | Local Government

Partner

Theresa is a partner at Tompkins Wake with more than 20 years’ experience in resource management and local government law in New Zealand and Australia.

Theresa joined Tompkins Wake in 2011and is a senior partner in the firm’s Environmental and Resource Management and Local Government and Public Law practices.

With a background in top tier, national law firms in both New Zealand and Australia, Theresa has extensive experience in large scale infrastructure, mining, energy and industrial projects, performing legal due diligence for national and international acquisitions as well as managing contaminated site issues across New Zealand, Victoria and Western Australia.

Theresa has guided several local authorities through significant plan changes, variations and plan reviews.

Theresa has acted for and advised:Theresa was lead counsel in obtaining all required planning andenvironmental approvals, and successfully concluding appealproceedings, for the following cases:

Tauranga’s Routes P, J, K, Takatimu Drive Extension and second harbour crossing. Rosedale Wastewater Treatment Plant expansion and ocean outfall. Waihi Mining and Newmont Waihi’s expansion of mining activities in Waihi. Orica Australia’s sale of its former explosives reserve to the former Auckland Regional Council to establish the Waitawa Regional Park. WALS’ landfill establishment in Serpentine, Western Australia. Hanson’s Red Hill Quarry expansion in Perth, Western Australia. Successful conclusion of the appeal processes on the Rotorua Lakes and Waipa District Plans.

Tompkins Wake, Board of PartnersMember of the Association for Resource Management Practitioners

BA, LLB, LLM (Hons), University of Auckland