Our Experience

David Hay

David Hay MSc(Hons), MNZPI, PMP

David commenced his planning consultancy career in 1991 and established Osbornehay with Greg in 2007. With a background dominated by private sector clients and infrastructure projects, David specialises in site selection projects and obtaining resource consents or designations for educational facilities, churches and a variety of community projects. A major component of David's work continues to be obtaining and managing resource consents for quarries, sand mines, cleanfills and dredge spoil disposal sites.

In terms of network utilities, David has an established track record in obtaining resource consents and designations for both telecommunication and electricity distribution projects.

Part of the enjoyment of being an independent planning consultant is the diversity of projects, and in recent years, additional projects have included marina development, an oyster processing factory, a farmers' market, a plan change for a marina based mixed use development, a new café, various community and recreational facilities and the de-commissioning of a large educational facility.

David has worked on projects in the Northland, Auckland and Waikato regions and the South Island. David is a Project Management Professional and uses Sosious as an online project management tool for clients.

David is a full member of the New Zealand Planning Institute, the New Zealand Resource Management Law Association and the New Zealand Project Management Institute.

Greg Osborne

Greg Osborne BTP, MNZPI

Greg commenced his planning career in 1979 and has been in private consultancy practice since 1995. After working together for seven years to build a successful planning consultancy team at a large multi-disciplinary consultancy, Greg and David established Osbornehay in 2007.

Greg has a long history of experience in preparing environmental and resource management policy work including preparing district plan changes and reviews and regional policy statement and regional plan changes. This is supplemented with extensive “hands-on” experience in preparing resource consent applications and assessments of environmental effects as well as Notices of Requirement and outline plans for a variety of public works. In more recent years, Greg has specialised in airport land use planning and large business park developments while still undertaking a wide range of other projects.

Airport planning work has included preparing plan changes for land use controls around airports in respect of aircraft noise as well as planning for the operational and commercial development of the airports themselves.

Greg has been associated with the planning and development of some of the highest profile business parks in New Zealand. This work has included initial concept planning as part of a design team, and obtaining subsequent changes to district and regional planning documents right through to obtaining detailed resource consents and designations for specific building and infrastructure projects.

Greg has primarily focused on projects in the Auckland area but has also worked on projects in the Hawkes Bay, Canterbury and Otago regions.

Greg is a full member of the New Zealand Planning Institute and a past National Councillor for the Institute. He also is a member of the New Zealand Resource Management Law Association.