Services

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Advice

• Statutory site evaluation/pre-purchase assessment.
• Online planning advice.
• General planning enquiries.

Planning Applications

• Preparation and submission of a range of planning applications for council approval. (advertising signage, application amendments, car parking waiver/reduction, change of use, commercial and industrial, covenant removal and variation, building additions and alterations, development in a Heritage Overlay, liquor licence, mixed use and development, developments in Green Wedge, subdivision, vegetation removal, multi-dwellings, apartments/town houses, places of worship).
• Preparation and submission of VicSmart applications.
• Negotiation with responsible/referral authorities.

Project Co-ordination

• Co-ordination of projects with designers, land surveyors, landscape designers, environmentalists, waste management specialists, traffic/acoustic/hydraulic/structural/drainage and civil engineers.

Planning Appeals

• Lodging appeals with the VCAT.
• Written and oral submissions.
• Mediation.

Building Design

• Full range of building design solutions.

Planning Enforcement

• Advice on enforcement notices.
• Handling enforcements procedures with relevant Council and/or Magistrate Court.
• Appealing to VCAT against enforcements actions.

Liquor Licence

• Processing liquor licence applications (planning applications) with councils.
• Processing liquor licence applications with VCGLR.
• Cumulative impact assessment.

Car Parking Assessment

• Parking occupancy survey.
• Car parking demand assessment report.

Other services

• Written representation in support or objection to a development application.
• Response to further information requests.
• Response to Condition 1 plans (Plans to comply with conditions).
• Advice on refusal/information requests etc.
• Undertaking planning application sub-contract.