Loren is a Principal Consultant with GMD Consultants. Loren is an experienced planner who has worked within local/regional government and private consultancy both in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. During her 20+ year career, Loren has gathered a wide breadth of experience including working on large scale development projects, detailed policy development, and strategic growth management projects.

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Most recently, she has been part of a small policy team at Timaru District Council, developing a new District Plan, with the associated stakeholder engagement, plan development, and formal consultation. This included managing and developing numerous topic areas, including a new Māori Purpose Zone and a variety of technical chapters within the plan. She also helped navigate the necessary statutory processes.

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Prior to this, Loren worked for Hamilton City Council as a Principal Planner in the Economic Growth and Urban Policy Unit. Here her work was focused on the development of regional and inter-regional growth management strategies and projects and preparing submissions on RMA plans. Loren also worked in London for 9 years, including as Principal Strategic Planner for the Greater London Authority where she managed a caseload of large-scale development projects and liaising with local planning authorities on the development of their planning policies.

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Loren has an MSc in Environmental Science (Freshwater Ecology) from the University of Canterbury and a BSc (Resource and Environmental Planning) from Waikato University.