Antony has 20 years of experience in Resource Consent Planning, operating under the RMA.

Antony has been a full member of NZPI since 2011 and has spent his planning career working for Auckland Council and its predecessors, before establishing Antony Yates Planning Limited (AYPL) in 2014.

 
Antony Yates – Director & Principal Planner

Antony Yates – Director & Principal Planner

Since starting AYPL in 2014 Antony has worked on a range of projects from dwelling consents to complicated apartment builds and subdivisions. AYPL also undertakes resource consent processing on behalf of both the Auckland and Queenstown Lakes District Councils. This ensures that Antony keeps up to date with Council’s practices and allows Antony’s resource consents applications to be tailored to Council’s thinking, ensuring more robust and successful consenting.

 

In the twelve years Antony spent working for Auckland Council and its predecessors he:

  • Processed high risk and complex resource consents both land use and subdivision.

  • Acted as an expert planning witness (Environment and District Courts and Maori Land Court). 

  • Provided mentoring, technical guidance and support for a team of up to 12 staff made up of eight planners, enforcement, compliance and administration officers.

  • Project management of complex land use & subdivision consents for Auckland Council’s Housing Projects Office and Premium teams.