The Ngarara Farm residential proposal is being developed by Maypole Environmental Ltd. The directors are Jonathan Smith and his brother Terry Smith, both being farmers and ‘men of the land’.

Maypole is working in co-operation with Te Runanga o Ati Awa ki Whakarongotai Incorporated, as representatives of the acknowledged tangata whenua of the area. [www.whakarongotai.com]

Other locals have been involved in shaping the proposal, including socio-cultural consultant Penny Eames of PSE Consultancy, based at Waikanae Beach. [www.pseconsultancy.com]

Project management is by Sinclair Knight Merz, a leading engineering and project delivery consultancy. [www.skm.co.nz]

Master planner James Lunday, of Common Ground Urban Design and Architecture, is leading the urban planning, while Boffa Miskell Ltd is leading the ecological planning and landscape assessment (building on earlier work by QE II National Trust ecologists). [www.common-ground.co.nz, www.boffamiskell.co.nz, www.openspace.org.nz]