Planning and environment law governs issues associated with decisions by road and water authorities, councils and state government. It essentially manages how our cities, towns and natural environment look:

• If you live on a heritage street, then it is the planning and environment act that protects the housing stock of the area.
• If a farmer wishes to cut down trees that are in a habitat zone, it is planning and environment law that will protect the trees or penalise the farmer if they are removed without permission.
• If you are frustrated by council’s approval of a planning application, then the Planning and Environment Act enables you to seek a review of that decision at VCAT.

Planning and Environment law is a form of administrative law, and I assist individuals, companies and government authorities to navigate the complexities that govern this administrative law in Victoria.

My services:

• Planning advice
• Preparation of planning applications and representation at council consultative meetings for planning permit applications, navigating planning controls and other regulatory requirements, and addressing assessment criteria procedures
• Victorian planning panel hearings for planning scheme amendments
• Merits review, as well as obtaining, defending and challenging consents, permits, licences and other approvals or refusals. This includes
  • merit appeals and legal challenges, and alternate dispute resolution
  • permit extensions
  • licensed premises
  • chicken broiler farms
  • wind Energy Facilities/wind farms
  • residential
  • advertising signs
  • schools
  • restrictive covenants
  • major projects
  • existing use rights
  • development applications
  • review applications
  • clean up and prevention notices
  • water, noise and air pollution
• Compulsory acquisition advice, representation and appeals
• Pollution, environmental and planning prosecutions hearings
• Heritage, native vegetation and threatened species matters
• 173 and voluntary planning agreements
• VCAT appeals to Supreme Court