Sweetman Planning Services

Sweetman Planning Services offers independent planning and policy advice, Resource Management Act, local and central government expertise and training, with a primary focus on the public sector.  

Gina Sweetman has over thirty-one years of management, planning and policy experience. She is an accredited and experienced RMA Hearings Commissioner (Chair endorsement), a Government appointed Development Contribution Commissioner, and an independent chairperson and facilitator. Gina works throughout New Zealand. She is currently appointed on a part time basis by the New Zealand Planning Institute as a Chief Advisor at the Ministry for the Environment, working on resource management reforms.

Sweetman Planning Services can:

• Provide policy, planning, RMA, LGA, Treaty of Waitangi, Māori planning and wider natural resource expertise

• Give expert evidence to council hearings, the Environment Court, and central government committees

• Support and mentor people and teams through training and best practice guidance

• Lead and manage your project

A strong believer in the planning profession, Gina is a Fellow of the New Zealand Planning Institute, a former three term councillor of the New Zealand Planning Institute, former long-term Editor of the Planning Quarterly and a recipient of its Distinguished Services Award.

SPS provides best value service to clients, with an honest and no-nonsense approach. SPS “tells it straight” and allows clients to make informed judgments on the basis of this advice.