Sentinel Planning
Planning better places.
Creating better possibilities.
Expert planning and development advice to help you understand what's possible, navigate the process and turn your property ambitions into successful outcomes.
Planning expertise.
Development experience.
Practical advice.
ABOUT SENTINEL PLANNING
From a single property to a complex development, we bring together planning expertise, commercial understanding, and hands-on development experience to help our clients make better decisions and achieve better outcomes.
Our team works alongside homeowners, developers, architects, business and landowners across Auckland and New Zealand.
What are you looking to achieve?
OUR SERVICES
Whatever you’re planning, we’ll help you understand what’s possible and find the best way forward.
Subdivide My Property
Understand what’s possible, what it will take, and the most effective path to creating additional title.
Obtain Resource Consent
Expert planning advice and consent management to help navigate complexity and move your project forward.
Develop My Site
Integrated planning, design and development expertise to maximise the potential of your site.
Assess Development Potential
Understand opportunities, risks and constraints before committing significant time or money.
Increase Development Capacity
Unlock additional development opportunities through Auckland’s Transferrable Title Rights framework.
Experience you can build on
WHY SENTINEL
150+
Years of combined planning experience
2013
Sentinel Planning established
Auckland + NZ
Projects across New Zealand
One Team
Planning expertise from feasibility to consent
OUR WORK
Planning that turns possibilities into places.
Residential Development
Auckland
Planning ˑ Resource Consent ˑ Development
Subdivision
Auckland
Feasibility ˑ Subdivision ˑ Consent
Complex Resource Consent
Auckland
Strategy ˑ Planning ˑ Consent
More than knowing the rules.
Great planning is about understanding what the rules mean for your project.
Our team combines planning expertise with practical development experience to identify opportunities, anticipate challenges and find a clear way forward.
OUR PEOPLE
Experience meets perspective.
Our planners bring together decades of experience across local government, private practice, policy and development.
Different perspectives. One collaborative team. One focus: helping you achieve the best possible outcome.
LATEST INSIGHTS
Planning is changing.
Stay ahead.
The latest changes affecting development costs, infrastructure funding and project feasibility.
What Auckland’s changing planning framework means for residential development and your next project.
What the new geotechnical requirements could mean for your site, project costs and consenting timeframe.
HAVE A PROJECT IN MIND?
Let’s talk.
Tell us what you’re looking to achieve. Our team can help you understand what’s possible and identify the best way forward.

