Lyndon Dearlove
Greater Wellington (Regional Council),
Lyndon Dearlove is currently employed as a Resource Advisor at Greater Wellington (Regional Council), where his core duties include processing resource consents, compliance monitoring and enforcement, and responding to environment incidents called in through the Environmental Pollution Hotline.
During his time with Greater Wellington, he has developed a focus on water takes and bores, three waters networks, and onsite wastewater.
Prior to this, he worked with Christchurch City Council as a Surface Water Land Drainage Planner and Environmental Compliance Officer, focussing on maintaining waterway ecology and amenity values, and internal quality assurance. When it comes to compliance monitoring and enforcement, Lyndon is a champion for the 4Es of Regulation, recognising when less is more and seeking out collaborative and efficient solutions to non-compliance.
‘4Es’ approach to regulation: Enable, Engage, Educate, and Enforce.
At Greater Wellington (Regional Council), we have reinvigorated the ‘4Es’ approach to regulation: Enable, Engage, Educate, and Enforce.
While enforcement sits solely within the Regulatory business unit, we recognise the capacity of our wider group to enable, engage, and educate in their work.
Following a recent restructure of the Environment Group, the "4Es Project" looks to re-engage the wider group as our eyes and ears out in the field.
To assist this conversation, we have developed an infographic, describing the types of environment incidents we want them to notice and how we want them to respond.
By sharing and discussing this infographic and the 4Es approach at the team-level, we aim to begin a broader conversation about shared responsibility for good environmental outcomes.
This presentation speaks to the conference themes of building strong CME foundations and crossing regulatory divides.