Cellars Hill Development Assessment Panel

Paul has over 30 years’ experience working in local government in Tasmania. During his career Paul served as General Manager at West Coast, Waratah-Wynyard, Kingborough and Devonport Councils. Since leaving Devonport in 2019, Paul has been providing management consulting services to a number of local councils in Tasmania. Paul has formal qualifications in accounting and has a Graduate Certificate in Regional and Local Government Studies from the University of Canberra.

Paul is a past National President of Local Government Managers (Australia), a Life Member of both the Local Government Association of Tasmania and Local Government Professionals (Tas).

Michael holds Bachelor of Arts (Economics & Geography) and Master of Town Planning degrees from the University of Tasmania. Michael has over 30 years of work experience across a range of strategic and statutory planning as well as major project approval areas. Michael has worked with the Tasmanian Government’s central land use planning sections and with Tasmanian City Councils. He led the transport infrastructure planning and policy branch of the Government and has worked as a project development manager with private and state owned companies in the renewable energy/electricity sector.

Alex Brownlie has over 40 years’ experience having commenced his planning career with the City of Hobart, gaining further experience working within State Government, and 30 years in private practice. His private sector experience working in a multi-disciplinary professional consulting firm has shaped his appreciation of the need for cross discipline inputs to statutory and strategic planning processes. More recently, working with the Tasmanian Planning Commission and the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (TASCAT), has provided Alex with the opportunity to use his extensive knowledge and experience as a consultant planner to the task of determining planning scheme amendments and development applications. Alex has lived and worked in Launceston, the Central Coast of NSW including a secondment to the GHD Dubai office, and returning to live in Hobart in 2015. Alex is a Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia and a Registered Planner.

Louise has a Master of Science degree in ecology from the University of Tasmania, and has over 30 years’ professional experience in natural heritage management. She has strong scientific, policy, legislative and regulatory framework experience, with extensive practical and field-based skills. Her career includes over 20 year’s employment in the Tasmanian government conservation agency and ten years at the University of Tasmania in post-graduate studies, research and lecturing positions, preceded by involvement in a range of environmental groups, as well as environmental consultancies in the private sector. Louise has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Council and the Community Review Committee for the Tasmanian Threatened Species Protection Act, the Forest Practices Tribunal, and the national Threatened Species Scientific Council. She is a Churchill Fellow and has an Order of Australia Medal for services to conservation and the environment.