Why Choose Maximum Planning?
Established in 2020, Maximum Planning is a Professional Environmental & Urban Planning Consultancy based in Christchurch, Canterbury with projects all across New Zealand. We travel anywhere our clients need us. We've helped our clients on over 500 projects. We have a vast amount of experience tackling a wide variety of Rural, Residential, Industrial and Commercial land development projects. These include multi-residential unit complexes or townhouse developments, standalone bespoke dwellings, Churches, Bridges, Superlot Subdivisions, Stormwater Basins, Boundary Adjustments, Planning Submissions, Medical Centers, Storage Facilities, Digital Billboards/Signage, Restaurants, Vehicle Dealerships. No project is too big or small for us to tackle, we love a challenge!
We pride ourselves in our fast, affordable, reliable and expert planning services. How are we different to other consultancies you might ask?
Fast: We aim to provide fast same-day-planning advice, and a 24hr turnaround time on Resource Consent Applications (once all information has been provided). Bigger consultancies may take weeks or months to achieve an outcome, whereas we can achieve the same outcome in a fraction of the time.
Affordable: You'll see from our list of our services below that our rates are significantly less than other consultancies as we don't believe in charging an arm and a leg like bigger consultancies do. We are also a smaller team, so there less overheads and no additional people clipping the ticket, which means we can charge less. We actively seek to make sure we save you as our client as much time and money on your project as possible, if we see an unnecessary cost we will avoid it. This means more profit in your bank account for your next development.
Reliable and Expert Planning Services: Just because we are fast and reliable, doesn't mean we skimp on quality. You'll still get tailored one on one expert planning advice from our skilled team, just at a fraction of cost and the time of a bigger consultancy.
Meet the Director - Max.
Qualifications and Memberships:
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Bachelors Degree in Environmental Management and Planning.
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Associate Member of New Zealand Planning Institute.
Max Stevenson is the Owner/Director of Maximum Planning. He is an avid outdoorsman with a passion for innovative thinking, the environment and helping the community. Max has a 'Bachelors Degree in Environmental Management and Planning' and he has over 8 years of Planning experience working in both the Public and Private Sector as a Senior Planner.
Max's resumé includes working for the Kaipara District Council, Inovo Projects Ltd, Government of British Columbia (Canada) - Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship and as the lead Planning Consultant for Project Velocity - Kainga Ora (Housing New Zealand). Max is also a Volunteer Firefighter/First Responder with over 4 years experience in this field.
Max specializes in complex and multi-disciplinary developments. His expertise includes the following:
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Preparation of Feasibility Studies, Planning Assessments and Resource Consent Applications for large scale rural, residential, commercial and industrial developments such as townhouse developments (e.g. 72 residential units/dwellings), medical and emergency facilities (e.g. medical centre or ambulance station), stormwater basins, bridges, subdivisions and other land-use developments such as commercial (e.g. car dealership), residential and industrial activities (e.g. storage facility).
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Preparation of Regional Council resource consent applications for construction-phase stormwater discharge, earthworks, water use/take, operational discharge, air discharge, groundwater discharge, in-stream works, re-alignment of a creek, explosive blasting of rock etc.
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Preparation of Plan Change Submissions.
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S127 and S221(3) variations.
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Within Scope Amendments
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Applying Urban Design Principles.
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District Plan Reviews
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Interpreting and applying the Resource Management Act, District and Regional Plans, Policy Statements, National Environmental Standards.
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Key Stakeholder Engagement e.g. Local Iwi, DOC, Fish and Game NZ.
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Lead Planning Consultant providing Planning advice to Kainga Ora (Housing NZ) assisting with streamlining NZ’s State Housing process (Project Velocity).