Thank you for your outstanding service and personal support over the past four years through the planning approval process of BlackRock Motor Park.

The complexity of the planning process was extraordinary and you and your team helped navigate a path forward with Lake Macquarie City Council to achieve an approved Development Application. Importantly, the Development Application consent you achieved was done so while maintaining the integrity of the desired commercial outcomes and minimising any adverse conditions and compromises.

For such a complex project, this is nothing short of an outstanding result.

You and your team have been an integral part of the BlackRock project and I look forward to continuing to work together on future stages of this project as well as other projects in the future.

I feel privileged to be associated with the Leading Agenda Forum Series run by Barr Property & Planning in partnership with The University of Newcastle’s Faculty of Business & Law.  This is a premier leadership forum enabling open dialogue and the exchange of ideas between CEOs, MDs and other business and community leaders, academics and postgraduate students from the MBA Program at UON. The high caliber of speakers at these events continues to energise and elevate the thinking and practices of all participants. Cutting across multiple industries and discipline areas, the Leading Agenda Forum Series showcases outstanding leadership practices from around the Hunter and around Australia.  Congratulations Stephen Barr for initiating and running this important educational and executive development initiative.

The Leading Agenda forum is a wonderful initiative hosted by Barr Property & Planning that brings leaders from the Hunter together to discuss and champion ideas to take our organisations and our region forward in great leadership. One of the strengths of Hunter leadership is the wide diversity of industries present in the region, from which to share ideas, challenges, and learning. The Leading Agenda forum ensures there is a space for leaders from across these industries to connect, network, and challenge our own biases, beliefs, and leadership practices. I look forward to learning from more inspiring Hunter leaders in future forums, especially as we navigate huge changes to workplaces, leadership, and management this year.

Thanks again for all your help during this project, Pacific National have been extremely happy with the performance of you and your company, and very much look forward to working with yourself again in the future.