Housing Convenor
Relevant Experience:
Charlie has worked as a civil design engineer on land development projects since moving to the Northern Rivers in 2006. He has worked for local consulting firms and run his own business, on projects large and small, public and private, designing stormwater treatment and control measures, water and sewer services, roads and car parks, and earthworks and land grading including large scale constructed wetlands. Prior to engineering he worked in fields ranging from waste management, coastal restoration, and commercial fisheries environmental management.
Why I Joined:
Our current residential land development models are increasingly structured to extract wealth from those who can least afford it, and direct that wealth to those who have plenty already. Secure housing is unarguably a social good that is necessary for people and communities to flourish. So, treating it as a speculative instrument central to our economy to the extent that many are denied this social good is a collective madness that impacts everyone. Working with NRCF to provide homes that are outside of this speculative / extractive model is my professional salvation.