Shane Hartley and Lee Joffe, each with more than 30 years experience in planning practice, founded Terra Nova Planning in 2001 and are the firm's Principal Planners. Shane has degrees in Arts and Planning, while Lee is qualified in Earth Sciences and Geography, and has Master of City and Regional Planning degree.
They have worked together since the 1990s when Shane, the then Rodney District Council’s Forward Planning Manager, and Lee, an independent consultant with international major project experience, worked together on a series of settlement structure plans for many growing townships.
Their strategy and structure plan management projects undertaken for both Councils and private clients include;
- Rodney District Development Strategies
- Warkworth Structure Plan
- Kumeu-Huapai Structure Plan
- Wellsford Structure Plan
- Sandspit-Snells Beach-Algies Bay Structure Plan
- Helensville Structure Plan
- Muriwai Structure Plan
- Marsden Point- Ruakaka Structure Plan
- Kaukapakapa Structure Plan
They also have extensive multi-disciplinary project experience leading large scale commercial consents which Terra Nova have undertaken for a variety of developers.
We believe that good planning is about creating places that allow people to live the way they want to, while respecting the environment and protecting valuable resources for future generations, and that they should have a diverse choice of living environments to suit their changing lifestyle needs over time.
Our aim is to deliver top quality design-led solutions. Our team of planners and graphic designers is highly skilled and focussed on achieving best practice outcomes for our clients in resource management and planning processes, whatever the scale and nature of the project.
