Waimakariri District Council
Rachel McClung has a varied work experience in the field of policy planning and environmental advisory. Rachel currently holds the position of Principal Policy Planner at Waimakariri District Council since 2022. Prior to this, they served as an Environmental Policy Advisor at Horticulture New Zealand from 2017 to 2022. Rachel also worked as a Senior Policy Analyst at Waimakariri District Council from 2015 to 2017. Rachel has experience as a Planning Manager at Davis Ogilvie and Partners Ltd from 2012 to 2015, and as a Senior Policy Planner at Hurunui District Council from 2009 to 2012. Earlier in their career, they worked as a Senior Planner at Connell Wagner in 2007, and as a Planner at Christchurch City Council in 2006.
Rachel McClung earned a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Zoology and Botany from the University of Canterbury in 1999. Rachel then obtained a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Resource Management / Environmental Policy from Lincoln University (NZ) in 2001.
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Waimakariri District Council
When you get over 300 qualified, friendly and dedicated people together whose main focus is a community stretching over 225,000 hectares, from the Pacific Ocean to the Southern Alps, from the Waimakariri River to Hurunui, you can be sure that some good things are going to happen. That’s how it is with the Waimakariri District Council. A lot of the work we do is unseen – sometimes literally. Sewerage, water reticulation, community support … it’s not normally the sort of stuff that commands news headlines and lead TV stories. But it does need to be done and, if it goes wrong, it also needs to be fixed. Who fixes the pothole in your street? Who mows the grass in your local park? Who arranges for your rubbish to be collected? Who keeps public swimming pools open and clean? Who puts books in the libraries? Who plans for future community needs? … the Council. We also assume some responsibility for maintaining a considerate, respectable and peaceable community – the regulatory side of Council activities. What we like best is when people talk to us about their needs, wants and aspirations for themselves and their community, about their issues and problems – that gives us the opportunity to act on them and help to satisfy the needs or resolve the issues.