Our Team

Jeremy is a Senior Planner with a wealth of experience delivering planning expertise on a number of high-value and complex projects for private sector clients.

Jeremy has experience in all forms of land use development including retail, office/commercial, industrial, tourist accommodation, health, residential, and rural projects. This experience has predominantly included the preparation of land use consent applications for development projects and the presentation of evidence at Environment Court and Council hearings.

Jeremy has excellent project management skills and is able to coordinate technical experts and competing demands for complex assignments.

Kim is a principal planner based in Blenheim, but primarily working in Christchurch. Kim has over 25 years’ experience dealing with a wide range of planning matters, including preparing and managing complex resource consent applications, district plan changes, designations, and research. Having worked variously for local and central government, in a planning research environment and in private consulting, Kim has a very good understanding of complex planning issues and the perspectives and interrelationships of different organisations and individuals.

Kim has been an accredited Hearings Commissioner since 2011, with an endorsement as chair since 2014.

Hamish is a consultant planner with Novo Group based in Auckland.

Hamish has a breadth of planning experience that has been gained from working on both sides of the public-private fence in a number of different localities in New Zealand.

Hamish has experience in land use development including: residential; industrial; retail; office/commercial; and rural projects.  This experience has included the preparation (for private and public sector clients) and processing (for several Councils) of land use and subdivision consent applications and notices of requirement for infrastructure and development projects. In addition, Hamish has prepared and presented evidence at both Council hearings and the Environment Court.

Hamish has excellent project management skills and is able to assemble and co-ordinate technical experts whilst simultaneously preparing the planning documents for complex applications.

Andrew has over twelve years land-use planning and resource management experience as a consultant planner and for various councils, including the Hurunui District and Christchurch City Councils.

Andrew has considerable experience preparing land use consent applications for a range of development projects.

Andrew’s experience also includes advise on and the preparation of applications Existing Use Rights, Certificates of Compliance, Temporary (EQ) Approvals and applications for Outline Plans and Waivers.

Nick Fuller has 18 years’ experience in the traffic and transportation engineering field.

Nick trained as a civil engineer and has provided transport advice to development planning projects since graduating in 2001. Between 2001 and 2006 he worked in the UK on a range of developments, including preparing Integrated Transport Assessments and detailed engineering.

Helen has over 15 years’ experience working for numerous private developer as well as gaining experience in local Councils as an Environmental Consents Planner, processing typical subdivision applications and resource consents and planning reports.

Helen is well versed in all aspects of resource consent as well a land development options, master planning, regional planning issues across urban, residential, and commercial land use developments.

Simon is a Senior Transport Engineer with Novo Group, working from the Christchurch office.

He is a dedicated and able transportation engineer/planner with over 15 years’ experience that covers: peer reviews; transportation impact reports; intersection analyses; parking studies; design reviews; preliminary access and intersection designs; transportation demand management; analysis of demographic/transport data using GIS/excel; consultation surveys and traffic surveys.

Much of Simon’s experience has been gained on multi-disciplinary projects requiring project leadership and transportation input having recently gained experience in meeting facilitation and public consultation.

Simon is a motivated, lifelong learner with strong project management skills. A collaborator that can lead from the front as required.

Clare is a Senior Planner with 19 years of experience in both resource consent and policy fields. Clare has knowledge that covers a wide range of land use development including retail, office/commercial, guest accommodation, health, residential, and rural projects.

Having processed a range of commercial and residential consents, Clare is an expert in navigating the consent process from start to finish. Clare has successfully presented evidence at Council and Environment Court hearings as well as having developed expertise in heritage/ heritage buildings, having spent 10 years with a focus on significant buildings in post-earthquake Christchurch.

Wayne is a highly experienced Transport Engineer with over 15 years experience in traffic engineering and transportation planning. Having worked in local government and consultancy roles, Wayne has developed strong analytical, problem solving and project delivery skills.

Wayne’s skill set includes: Preparing integrated transportation assessments for resource consents, expert evidence for resource consent hearings, transportation related planning advice for other professional consultants, territorial authorities, business owners and land developers and conceptual design services for site layouts including parking and access, plus preliminary intersection design services.

Emily is a land-use and resource management planner based in Christchurch and holds a Masters of Planning degree from Lincoln University.

In her time at Novo Group Emily has worked on a range of resource consent applications including, large scale commercial and mixed use developments, multi-unit residential developments, and billboards. Emily has also reviewed and processed resource consent applications on behalf of the Christchurch City Council.

Natasha joined Novo Group in 2021 while completing her final year of her  degree in Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University. Natasha is supporting the Principal Landscape Architect in such tasks as designing, drafting and preparing of landscape designs, graphic material, and / or assessments.

Sophie joined Novo Group in 2020 and looks after the day to day needs of the busy Christchurch office.

Previously Sophie has been involved in Stakeholder Management and Communications in the construction industry in Christchurch.

Outside of the office Sophie is busy spending time with her young family.