About Hanmore Land Management
Based in Northland, Hanmore Land Management provides soil expertise, land use consultancy and environmental management services including highly productive land assessments and farm plans throughout New Zealand.
Our aim is to help landowners have a clear understanding of their soil and land resources and to help them reach their land use goals. Whether that is in through subdivision, land use diversification or improved land management.
Our People
Ian Hanmore
MAppSc
Ian has a Master of Applied Science majoring in Natural Resource Management through Massey University, has completed the Advanced Nutrient Management Certificate also through Massey University and is an Approved Competent Mapper for the National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry Erosion Susceptibility Classification. He has been working in land management since 2006 competing specialised soil and Land Use Capability mapping and farm environment plans as well as cell grazing systems and paddock maps throughout New Zealand.
Throughout his professional career Ian has worked with many different groups, organisations and individuals throughout the country. From individual landowners and farmers to developers, corporate farmers, Māori Trusts, large environmental planning companies, individual planners and regional and district councils. He has worked on large solar farm projects and land developments, been an expert witness in council hearings, mediation and environment court hearings, completed peer reviews of highly productive land assessments, completed farm environment plans for 1,000s of hectares of farms and completed 100s of highly productive land assessments.
Ian’s aim is to provide professional and independent services to his clients and assist them with their land development projects.
Call 021 201 3441
Mitchel Hanmore
Batchelor of Applied Science – Environmental Management
Mitchel has completed a Batchelor of Applied Science majoring in Biodiversity Management and has been working for Hanmore Land Management since 2021. His areas of work include farm paddock maps, cell grazing systems, Farm Environment Plans (FEPs), sediment reduction plans, pest management and soil and land use capability (LUC) mapping projects.
Mitchel has extensive experience working in the Kaipara catchment primarily as a Kaipara Moana Remediation field advisor completing sediment reduction plans, advising on waterway fencing and planting, erosion control planting and retirement, and small forestry projects. He also works with Ian completing large scale soil and LUC mapping projects and FEPs in Northland, Auckland and the Waikato.
Mitchel works closely with farmers from around the country completing cell grazing systems and farm paddock maps. He has extensive pest management experience having worked around Whangarei and in the Far North as a contractor for both Kiwi Coast and the Northland Regional Council.
Through his work Mitchel has built up a good understanding of the challenges that farmers face and likes to take a sensible and practical approach to land management and the advice he gives to landowners. He takes a supporting role with his clients assisting them to reach their goals and aspirations. As such, he has built up a good reputation with the farmers and landowners he works with, with many of them returning to him for repeated assistance with their projects.
Call 020 4042 9807