On 9 December 2021 the Panel Convener appointed the panel to decide the application. The panel consists of:

Kitt Littlejohn (Chair)

Kitt Littlejohn is a New Zealand qualified lawyer with over 25 years’ post-admission experience and has practiced as a barrister sole since 2000, specialising in resource management, local government, and administrative law. Since 2008, Kitt has also practiced as an Independent Commissioner and regularly undertakes commissions for local authorities throughout the North Island. Kitt lives in the eastern bays of Auckland and is married with two teenage children.

Richard Knott (member)

Richard is an urban designer, planner, historic heritage, and special character expert, with 32 years of experience across these areas in both local government and the private sector. Richard initially trained and worked in the UK, before moving to New Zealand in 2007. Richard is a Chartered Town Planner (Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute), a Member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation, and a Member of the Institute of Highway Engineers.

As a consultant, Richard has experience over a broad range of proposals, including working with individual homeowners to alter their home in a special character area, through to masterplans for town centres (including Ōpōtiki, Papakura, and Manurewa) and large greenfield sites (Foxton Beach 65Ha and Beachlands 125Ha).

Richard is an accredited independent hearings commissioner (chairing endorsement) with 10 years of experience. Richard recently chaired the Whangarei District Council Urban and Services Plan Changes and has sat on a wide range of other hearings.

Glenn Wilcox (member)

With a keen interest in the health and youth development sector, Glenn co-chairs the Affinity Charitable Services Trust and is a Board Member of Healthwest and the Sir Peter Blake Marine Education and Recreation Centre (MERC).

He is a qualified Hearings Commissioner and has been a member of the Independent Māori Statutory Board in Tamaki Makaurau since its inception in 2010. Glenn is a current panel member for the Auckland Council bylaws hearings.

He previously chaired the Committee of Management of a hapū-owned farm on the South Kaipara Peninsula and was a member of Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua. He now chairs the Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua Fisheries and Commercial Group of Companies. He has worked in an advisory capacity with the police in Waitemata for over a decade and presently is a national advisor to the New Zealand Police.

Register of interests

The register records all relevant panel member's interests and is updated when necessary throughout the consenting process

View the register of interests updated on 21 January 2022 (PDF, 117KB)