Our Services

Our strategic planning experience provides a strong appreciation for translating visions into tangible, robust planning frameworks and an awareness that each project requires a unique and distinctive approach.

We understand that strategic planning is an iterative process that relies on the contributions of many to influence the making of place.

Types of work:

• Planning Proposals
• Development Contributions Plans
• Local Environmental Plans
• Development Control Plans
• Local Strategic Plans
• Community Consultation

With over 40 years of planning experience, we are well placed to deliver successful outcomes for your project.

Having worked on over 10,000 projects, we understand the challenges in securing approval.

We provide independent and objective advice, including the planning approval pathway to best suit your project.

Our expert team of planners work closely and co-operatively with clients and other specialists at every stage of the process.

Types of work:

• Project Management
• Planning Advice
• Feasibility Analysis
• Built Form and Yield Studies
• Exempt Development Advice
• Complying Development Advice
• Statement of Environmental Effects
• Environmental Impact Statements
• Planning Proposals (rezoning applications)
• Expert Evidence
• Urban Design and Master Planning

Our professional staff draw from a depth of experience in Local and State Government, as well as the private sector. Many of our professional staff have extensive experience working in Local Councils and understand the demands and challenges of local government planning.

We have a wide range of experience in providing services tailored to Local and State Government across strategic and statutory planning.

Types of work:

• Planning Advice
• Review of Environmental Factors (REF) Reports
• Independent Assessment of Development Applications
• Preparation of Development Applications
• Expert Evidence
• Planning Proposals
• Development Contributions Plans
• Local Environmental Plans
• Development Control Plans
• Local Strategic Plans
• Community Consultation
• Independent Assessment of Planning Proposals
• Urban Design and Master Planning

Our heritage experts are well-placed to provide robust and independent heritage services.

Our heritage services provide both government and private clients with clarity on the relationship between the plans for tomorrow and the heritage of the past.

Types of work:

• Heritage Impact Statements
• Heritage Feasibility Studies
• Heritage Significance Analysis
• Heritage Conservation Management Plans
• Expert Evidence

Urban design focuses on the shaping of space to enhance amenity, liveability and visual appeal.

Urban design is not only a function of planning and architecture, but also the social, economic and environmental elements that influence the arrangement, appearance and function of buildings and places.

As urban design becomes an increasingly important factor in the development process, we are well equipped to provide urban design services for your project.

We undertake urban design work on behalf of government and private clients.

Types of work:

• Urban Design
• Master Planning
• Built Form Studies
• Expert Evidence

As a leading planning consultancy, we provide professional, independent and specialist planning advice. Our Directors and Partners are experienced in acting as Expert Witnesses for Court Appeals, providing evidence and advice in a wide range of planning matters.

We acts for Local Councils and Public Authorities as well as private sector clients.

Types of work:

• Planning Evidence on Behalf of Litigants
• Expert Planning Witness for NSW Land and Environment Court Proceedings
• Expert Evidence and Advice for legal Proceedings such as Supreme Court Proceedings, Mediation and Conciliation Conferences.
• Expert Evidence for Compulsory Land Acquisition and Compensation Court Proceedings.
• Statements of Evidence for Development Contribution appeals
• Highest and Best Use Reports for land valuations

We have a strong appreciation for balancing planning, urban design and community aspirations in order to achieve social cohesion and a sense of place.

The success of many projects is influenced by the quality, rigor and transparency of the community consultation and the extent to which the community is involved in the planning development process.

Types of work:

• Social Impact Assessment Reports
• Community Consultation and Engagement
• Plan of Management
• Demographic Analysis
• CPTED Assessment Reports