Lee has over 25 years of experience in planning and resource management and has held senior and management positions within the private and public sector.
Her experience covers a wide range of planning work both within NZ and overseas and includes team leadership/management of a local authority resource consents team, assessment and preparation of the full spectrum of resource consents, both notified and non-notified, experience in Council hearings and Environment Court mediation processes, strategic planning and structure planning, policy formulation and community engagement and public consultation projects.
Lee worked extensively in the United Kingdom including a senior role reporting to the Mayor of London on strategic planning applications, including a number of high-profile schemes such as: the Tottenham Hotspur First Team and Youth Academy training facility, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and the Tate Modern II.
With extensive experience within local government, Lee is ideally positioned to navigate and lead development proposals through the consenting process. She is particularly passionate about projects involving built or natural heritage, community infrastructure projects and development which delivers positive ecological/environmental outcomes.
Lee is married with three children and loves to spend her down-time with family and friends, whenever possible, getting away to the beach or out into nature.