Expert Witness

When a property investor wished to obtain resource consent for a childcare centre in the St Marks area in Auckland he engaged us to assist with the design of parking and to prepare an impact assessment for resource consent.  This involved surveys of other childcare centres to refine parking demand and trip generation estimates.
We provided expert witness services during the resource consent hearing and a subsequent appeal to the Environment Court.

We were engaged to assist Avery Team Architecture in designing the Sovereign Pier Apartment complex adjoining the canals in Whitianga.  We helped to design access, circulation and parking layouts and prepared an impact assessment.  We also provided expert witness services to the resource consent hearing.

Our client had a challenging development problem - a block of undeveloped land in Kohimarama with relatively steep topography and constrained access and a goal of building a 200-unit apartment-style retirement village.

Wes Edwards Consulting was engaged by the trust board operating the Edenvale Resthome in Mt Eden to assist them in their plans for expansion of the site, and to upgrade the facilities provided to residents.
We assisted the architects in preparing site and parking designs to accommodate the changing needs of the home over several stages of development.  We prepared an impact assessment for resource consent and this included surveys of on-street parking in the area.  We provide expert witness services to the resource consent hearing.
 

We were engaged by Addison Developments to assist in the development of a new neighbourhood centre.  We joined the design team in preparing street designs, site designs, and parking designs; prepared impact assessments and appeared as an expert witness in a resource consent hearing.  Consent was granted.
The neighbourhood centre concept included retail shops, a restaurant, offices, and a child-care centre.

We were engaged by Waterside Business Centre to assist them in developing their land-holding in Mangere, Auckland.  This included an assessment of the best purpose of the land that involved extensive investigations and designs for developing the land as either an industrial business park or residential development. 

We subsequently undertook detailed traffic modelling, investigated intersection upgrading, assisted with subdivision design, produced an Integrated Transportation Assessment and presented evidence at a recent Plan Change hearing.

We were engaged to review the masterplan for this area that proposes 2000 new houses, a town centre, and a tertiary campus in Taupo. 

We advised on subdivision layout, street and intersection design, and connections to the road network.  The masterplan makes extensive use of cycle paths and promotes numerous pedestrian-friendly aspects. 

Wes Edwards Consulting was engaged to assist in developing a plan change to change rural land adjacent to the Papakura Southern Motorway Interchange to urban zoning with provision of a Town Centre and over 1,300 homes.

This involved investigating the traffic impact on the road network including the motorway interchange and presenting evidence to a plan change hearing and subsequently to the Environment Court.  Subsequently we were engaged to assist in developing the Karaka Harbourside and Karaka Lakes subdivisions.

A consortium of landowners in Takanini Structure Plan Area 2b engaged Wes Edwards Consulting to help rezone their land from rural to urban.

A consortium of landowners in Takanini engaged Wes Edwards to assist in developing their rural landholdings (Takanini Structure Plan Area 2a) into urban residential subdivisions.