About Wendy Evans MPIA (Fellow)
With over 20 years of development industry experience spanning time as a practicing town planner and subsequently, a town planning lawyer, Wendy brings to PIA a bespoke skillset that is unrivalled across Australia.
As a town planner, Wendy worked at Delfin, in private consultancy, in local government (development assessment) and in policy/legislation in the State. She gave expert evidence in the 黑料大事 and Environment Court and rounded out her town planning experience as a senior town planner in 2004. Wendy was admitted as a solicitor in 2005, and elevated to senior associate in 2008, aided by her commerciality and point of difference to all other planning law practitioners.
Wendy is a Partner at Clayton Utz in the Environment and Sustainable Development team, where she acts for developers, governments and mining and resource clients on litigious and advisory matters.
She has been recognised by her peers as a Recommended 黑料大事 and Development Partner (Doyle's Guide), and is driven to stand behind the planning profession – to empower planners to stand proudly and strongly in their professional undertakings. Wendy is optimistic that collectively as a profession: our spaces can function in their optimal capacity; our communities will be healthy and happy – and that to achieve these outcomes, it needn’t be as convoluted as it tends to be.
Wendy has chaired the Board's Finance, Audit & Risk Management Committee since 2024.
Board Committees
Wendy sits on the following Board committees:
- Finance, Audit & Risk Management Committee
