Kristyn is a solicitor practising in environment and planning law, with experience advising the public and private sector on a range of issues including planning and development, compliance and enforcement, environmental licensing, biodiversity, and contamination.
Kristyn chairs the Council’s Environment Strategic Reference Group co-chairs the Manly Warringah War Memorial State Park (Manly Dam) Advisory Committee, and sits on the Nature for Northern Beaches Trust.
Kristyn has co-authored and presented on many planning and environment topics, and is enthusiastic about good town planning, environmental conservation and sustainable development. She holds degrees from UNSW and ANU, and is involved in the Environment Institute of Australia New Zealand, Planning Institute of Australia, and Environment and Planning Law Association.
In 2024 she was listed as a Doyle's Guide Rising Star for Planning and Environment Law and has previously been shortlisted in the Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards for Planning and Environment Law.
Kristyn lives in Freshwater with her husband and son and has lived in the Northern Beaches for 25 years. She actively volunteers with various environmental conservation groups locally on the Northern Beaches, including Northern Beaches Envirolink Inc. She is passionate about creating a sustainable, liveable, and inclusive community, including challenges like housing affordability, waste minimisation, climate resilience, and environment protection.
Contact
Kristyn.Glanville@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au
Inauguration speech 2024
I want to acknowledge that we're meeting today on Aboriginal country in the Northern beaches, that's the land of the Gayemagal and Gadigal people, and acknowledge that we have so much to learn from First Nations' knowledge about being good stewards about community and local environment, and living in harmony with nature.
There's always a lot of discussion at local government about the three R's, and perhaps unexpectedly as a Greens Councillor, I'm going to talk about the three R's, but rates, roads, and rubbish are stale. I'm going to call it. It's very 2021. I'm going to talk about the three R's for 2024. Our relationships, our responsibilities, and our reimagining with the community of what our area can be.
It's the first R, that's why we're all here our relationship with the community that elected us, it's who makes us better councillors because the sum of the whole is greater than the total of the individual parts, and it's our community groups that keep us honest, accountable, and better informed and improve our decisions. It's our relationships with nature, our local beaches, bushland and lagoons, and the wildlife within. And as much as I love the community that we live in, it's really my relationship with our local wildlife that really made me fall in love with the area, that we live amongst birds and possums, birds, bees, and lizards.
The second R is responsibility. Our responsibility to listen, not just to those who are very hyper-engaged with council, but also those who are disengaged and those who can't advocate for themselves. Our responsibility to tackle the challenges, both big and small, from the pesky potholes and broken playgrounds through to the full gambit of pulling our weight on huge generational issues like climate change, housing affordability, and the absolute crisis that our ecological footprint, of our ecological footprint as a species. While there's plenty of time devoted to councils needing to live within their financial means, we also have to support both ourselves and the community living within our ecological means because as a species, we're living on the environmental equivalent of credit card debt.
The third R is reimagining. Reimagining how we can work together as a council to be collaborative, innovative, brave, caring, reimagining what it is to work with our community, and to show what an equitable, inclusive, and sustainable community looks like.
In being here as one of the ward councillors for Curl Curl, I stand on the shoulders of so many people, my parents and family, my sister, Carly, my husband, Martin, my son, Hugo, who give me so much that means that I have the ability to give back to the community. The Manly Greens who have always supported and believed in me, I wouldn’t be here without people like Judy Lambert, Terry Le Roux, Keelah Lam, Pamela Doors, and too many other people to name. The Australian and New South Wales Greens, who every day inspire me for a better form of politics and a better society.
I'm really excited to keep working for the people of Curl Curl and for the people of the Northern Beaches, and to see what we can achieve together, both inside and outside the council chambers. The three R's for 2024 will challenge us, but the fourth R is that, it will reward us in rising to the challenge.
Thank you.