Marne Cole

Marne holds a Bachelor of Environmental Planning (Science and Environment) from the University of Waikato and began her career at Waipā District Council before joining Barker & Associates in 2023. Marne works across a broad range of complex residential, commercial, industrial, subdivision and rural land use projects throughout New Zealand. She is skilled at bringing […]
Rebecca Shaw

In 2018 Rebecca completed her Bachelor of Environmental Planning degree at the University of Waikato. After graduating Rebecca spent 18 months at Matamata-Piako District Council as a Policy Planner for their Corporate Strategy and Governance team before moving to the South Island, where she worked for Clutha District Council as a Planner for their Planning […]
Sam Le Heron

Sam joined B&A as a Senior Associate in June 2024. Sam has over 14 years’ experience in leadership, policy development, project management and resource consent planning. He has been a full member of NZPI since 2017. He spent his first decade split between policy planning and consent planning at Hamilton City Council (HCC). He worked […]
Katherine Hu

Katherine completed her Bachelor of Planning (Hons) degree at the University of Auckland in 2015. After graduating Katherine spent two years working as a planning consultant at Taupō before moving to Hamilton, where she worked for Hamilton City Council as a resource consent planner. Having gained three years of experience across a broad range of […]