Brianna is a senior associate in the firm's local government and environment group. She specialises in local government and environmental law, advising local authority clients on resource consents, designations, public works, bylaws, reserves, district plan interpretation and environmental enforcement. She has appeared before the Environment Court, District Court and High Court on resource consent appeals and prosecutions, and in judicial review and declaration proceedings.
She has over 10 years' experience, primarily acting for local authority clients in the Auckland and Canterbury regions. She has also been in-house counsel for Auckland City Council.
Examples of Work
- Auckland Council - successfully resolving appeals against the Comprehensive Development Plan resource consent for a new town centre at Massey North, and providing advice on associated resource consent applications for the development of the Town Centre and Large Format Retail
- Auckland Transport - acting in applications for designations for AMETI Phase 1 and 1A, and for resource consents for Phase 1 and 2 of a Park and Ride at Silverdale
- Auckland Council - junior counsel on plan change appeals, including Orakei Point, Massey North and Hobsonville Village
- Auckland Council - successfully defending an appeal against a decision to decline resource consent for a subdivision of rural land in Warkworth
- Auckland Council and Watercare Services Limited - providing advice on options for funding public infrastructure to service growth, including works and services conditions, development contributions and drafting Infrastructure Funding Agreements
- Auckland Council - providing advice on the review, drafting and promulgation of a regional Dog Control Policy and Bylaw
- Advising Auckland Council, and former Auckland Councils including Auckland City Council and Waitakere City Council, on drafting resource consent conditions and mechanisms to secure performance of conditions such as bonds, covenants and consent notices
- Redevelopment of the historic Masonic Tavern - junior counsel in successful application for resource consent in the Environment Court, including interlocutory proceedings and opposing a recusal application to the High Court
- Waitakere City Council - successful application for enforcement orders and costs against a clean-fill operator
- Wallace Corporation - junior counsel in successful appeal in High Court against conviction and sentence in an environmental prosecution and a related declaration on summary offences under the Resource Management Act
- Auckland City Council - counsel for the Council as applicant for designations for roads, reserves and other public infrastructure in the Wynyard Quarter
- Auckland City Council - acting for the Council as respondent on a number of resource consent appeals in the Environment Court for residential, apartment, and civic developments in the Isthmus and Hauraki Gulf Islands
- Auckland City Council - junior counsel in judicial review of brothel bylaw
Other Credentials
- Resource Management Law Association - Member
