Places that work for the people who use them

Transport strategy and programmes

Bringing capital works and operational projects together into one defensible strategy or programme, linked to outcomes, evidence and funding.

Funding and investment inputs

Long-Term Plan (LTP), Integrated Planning and Reporting (IP&R) and asset management inputs, programme prioritisation, NZTA and Transport for NSW funding and grant submissions, and business case material.

Transit-oriented development and growth

Planning growth around rail, rapid transit and bus stations: the mix and density of land use, street networks and public spaces that make it easy to live and work without relying on a car. Also spatial, local area and precinct plans and growth sequencing.

Movement and place frameworks

Defining the role and function of each street, corridor typologies and network planning, with options tested using transport model outputs where needed.

Sustainable urban mobility plans

For Pacific towns and cities: practical, low-data evidence, inclusive and gender-responsive walking strategies, climate resilience, and costed action plans for development partners.

Elected member and committee support

Briefings, workshops and plain-English advice that help decision-makers understand the trade-offs and make confident decisions.

Co-design in practice

Teachers, parents and students mapped their routes to school, and the solutions they identified became 25 street interventions.

One change, turning a street one-way to make room for a pop-up cycleway, led to a 58% increase in children cycling to school.

Programme management

Setting up and running transport programmes, including rapid transit, active travel and network improvements: sequencing, dependencies, governance, funding milestones and reporting to elected members and funding partners.

Project management

Scoping and procurement, managing consultant teams, schedules, budgets and risk, and keeping decisions moving, as an embedded project manager within council teams or on a defined contract.

Design management

Leading civil, traffic, stormwater, landscape and planning inputs from concept to detailed design, coordinating approvals, and running optioneering and multi-criteria assessment that stakeholders can follow.

Co-design and engagement

Workshops with councils, communities, schools and elected members, and site-based “Design by Hikoi” walkovers that build shared understanding early.

Tactical urbanism and pilots

Low-cost trials that test ideas on the street before permanent investment, delivered quickly with a network rather than site-by-site approach.

Standards and design review

Helped write Auckland Transport's walking and cycling design guidance, and served on its design review panel for council projects.

Landscape and visual effects assessment

Independent assessment of how a proposal will change a landscape and how it will look from homes, roads, beaches and public places. Clear reporting, viewpoint photography and practical mitigation that supports a consent or notice of requirement.

Peer review for councils

Reviewing applicants' landscape assessments to check the method, findings and mitigation are sound, often including a site walkover with the applicant's assessor. Recent work includes a rural interface review for Waipā District Council on Plan Change 14, an industrial rezoning, informing the council's section 42A planning report.

Natural character and outstanding landscapes

District and regional studies that identify the most natural and valued coastlines, landscapes and landforms, so plans protect what matters and are clear for landowners. Includes property-level boundary reviews and landowner feedback.

Expert evidence

Evidence at council hearings and in Environment Court mediation and appeals, including expert caucusing and site visits with affected landowners. Experienced in presenting technical findings in plain terms for commissioners and the court.

Infrastructure and transport projects

Landscape input from route options through to consent for roads, cycleways, reservoirs, wastewater plants, quarries, mines and energy projects, working alongside engineers to fit infrastructure into its setting.

Design and mitigation

Turning assessment findings into design: siting and form, planting and screening, staged rehabilitation, and landscape management plans that make a better project, not only a consentable one.

Trail design in practice · Western Taupōmoana Trail, Lake Taupō

Respecting the whenua: a trail that honours the cultural values of the land treads lightly and gives a more compelling experience.

Feasibility for an experiential walking and cycling trail along the western shores of Lake Taupō, micro-sited through bush, bluffs and ignimbrite rock to make the most of views over the lake.

Walking, cycling and micromobility

Network and route design, intersections and crossings, shared paths and separated cycleways, balancing engineering constraints with how comfortable people feel using them.

Universal design and accessibility

Grades, widths, landings, rest areas, edges, handrails and surfaces that work for wheelchairs, prams, older people and people with limited vision.

Resort and tourism access

How guests, staff, buggies and service vehicles move around a site, and the boardwalks and trails that link it all through dunes, wetlands, bush and coastal edges.

Experiential walking and cycling tourism

Trails people want to do: a clear story, the right distance, rest stops, viewpoints, shade and wayfinding, shaped with landowners and communities.

Urban design and landscape architecture

Streetscapes, public spaces and planting design suited to their setting, including coastal and tropical conditions.

Station access and integration

Walking, cycling, bus and park-and-ride access to rail and rapid transit stations, step-free and universal access, wayfinding, easy transfers between rail and bus, and approaches that feel safe day and night.

Aotearoa New Zealand

Councils, NZTA and developers. Long-Term Plan, asset management and regional land transport plan inputs, NZTA investment and funding submissions, business cases, local area plans, design management, and landscape assessment and peer review for consents and district plans.

Australia

Councils and state agencies. Integrated Planning and Reporting and asset inputs, Transport for NSW and active transport grant submissions, precinct and place-based planning, and design management, including recent work with Randwick City Council in Sydney.

The Pacific

Sustainable urban mobility and inclusive walking strategies for island towns and cities, spatial planning for growth, and resort and tourism work: access, trails, boardwalks, universal design and fitting new buildings and infrastructure into sensitive coastal settings.