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Kate Stubbing is a Senior Associate in the Litigation and Local Government Team at Cooney Lees Morgan. She joined CLM four years ago after moving to the Bay of Plenty from Auckland. Kate practices in resource management, planning and environmental law. She is the current Secretary of the National RMLA Committee and also on the Bay of Plenty Regional Branch RMLA Committee.

Kate is a busy mum with three primary school children. She is part of the firm’s newly established Women’s Group which is focusing on some issues that primarily affect women in the workplace.

Rita Martin is currently a Senior Regulatory Project Officer at the Bay of Plenty Regional Council specialised in Contaminated Land. Rita sits in the Regulatory Compliance team and supports the organisation across a range of activities from technical reviews of information received through resource consent applications or compliance monitoring to pollution prevention and complaint response.

Prior to joining the Regional Council Rita worked as an Environmental Consultant in the UK and NZ which provided a broad industry experience across a number of different sectors.

Bridget has over fifteen years of experience encompassing contaminated land projects, environmental and hazardous substances management, timber treatment compliance and environmental audits and assessment.

Susie is a proud boy-mum to an energetic five-year-old, a dog-mum to two lively French Bulldogs and an environmental scientist with 15 years’ experience in the NZ consultancy sector.  Susie is a Technical Director in Contaminated Land at PDP in Tauranga, where she has worked for 6.5 years.  Prior to joining PDP, she gained valuable experience at AECOM and URS.

As a Certified Environmental Practitioner, Susie specialises in the assessment, management, remediation, and consenting of contaminated sites, bringing a wealth of knowledge to every project she undertakes.