
Planning and resource management consultancy working in Southland and Otago
Have more time to focus on what you do best
At Southern Land & Water Planning, we provide professional environmental consulting services to help you navigate environmental compliance with confidence. Our experienced team offers practical advice and cost-effective environmental solutions, so you can stay focused on what matters most. Whether that's running your business, managing your land, or operating your farm.
We understand that keeping up with environmental regulations can be complex. That’s why we offer end-to-end support across all areas of environmental management planning, including resource consents, farm plans, effluent discharge consents, and DOC concessions.

Services
We have excellent local knowledge of current resource management plans and can help you work through the consenting requirements for your project.
Southern Land and Water Planning can prepare and submit resource consent applications, working alongside engineers, surveyors and scientists to prepare any necessary supporting information.
We also can assist with DOC concessions, policy analysis, landscape assessments and plans, farm plans and drafting submissions.
Planning
Our team is experienced in all stages of policy development, from scoping and drafting policy through to preparing submissions and presenting at hearings.
Resource Consents
We have extensive experience preparing resource consent applications for big and small projects. From effluent discharge permits to land use consents, we help farmers get it done.
Rural
Whether you need a consent, a farm environment plan or a consent monitoring plan, we understand farm systems and resource management so give us a call to see how we can help.

As locals, we offer in depth knowledge of resource management plans and can help you work through consenting requirements for your project
Our People
Our team are your Southland based resource management specialists with experience in assisting both private and local government sectors. We have a combined wealth of knowledge and skill which we use to help our clients achieve their goals – no matter the scale.

Land and Water
Resources
We are always working on new and exciting projects and the environmental space is always changing, with new resource management plans, new national policy and caselaw.
Sonya Nicol
Email: sonya@slwp.co.nz
Phone: 027 505 0077
Rebecca Robertson
Email: rebecca@slwp.co.nz
Phone: 027 424 6129
Burnetta Van Stipriaan
Email: burnetta@slwp.co.nz
Tracy Excell
Email: tracy@slwp.co.nz
Scott Slater
Email: scott@slwp.co.nz