How We Can Help

We can provide expert advice to help you by:

• Providing advice on procedural issues.
• Representing your case.
• Making valid and robust objections to the proposal or seeking modifications to the order to protect your interests.
• Identifying any areas of legal challenges to the process.
• Involving the assistance of industry experts including valuers, planners and engineers.
• Negotiating a satisfactory compensation settlement with the Government Authority. This may include:
  • Land value
  • Loss attributable to severance of land
  • Disruption
  • Stress / inconvenience
  • Cost of relocation
  • Business losses (where applicable)
  • Other losses
• Representing you in a Land Valuation Tribunal, District Court or High Court hearing (as required).

Our current clients include property owners affected by –

• Auckland City Rail Link (ACRL)
• Auckland Manukau Eastern Transport Initiative (AMETI)
• Waikato Southern Links Network
• Transmission Gully
• Various road widening projects

We are familiar with other roading and transmission lines projects affecting home and business owners around New Zealand, such as:

• Trig Road
• Redoubt Road – Mill Road corridor
• Christchurch Motorways, including the Western Corridor, Northern Arterial and Southern Corridor
• Puhoi to Wellsford
• Tauranga Eastern Link
• Airport to Mount Victoria Tunnel, Wellington (including Ruahine Street and Wellington Road)
• Harini Link, Tauranga
• Whangaparaoa Road upgrade
• Petone to Grenada
• Waterview Connection
• Top Energy transmission lines
• Auckland Harbour Crossing
• Oruru Valley transmission lines
• Lincoln Road widening

We look forward to discussing your personal circumstances with you.

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