- Steep highly constrained conservation property, prepare applications for off-grid residence (approvable DA lodged)
- Breached home owner – unapproved major renovations, bushfire threat
- Threatened breach of rural home owner – unapproved house, unapproved cottage, unapproved pond/pool
- Change of use – retail with technical difficulties due to food preparation consequences (air quality and acoustics); unapproved commercial sign
- Rural residential landscape plan including floodplain and dam extension (DA lodged)
- DA for industrial building, 24 units with parking, site constraints
- CDC application lodged for lift installation into existing semi-detached dwelling
- Assist with breach notice on rural residential property, leading to DA for house renovations, plus possible demolition/rebuild
- Advice on 2 rural residential properties, both pre-purchase, to clarify permissibility of client’s objectives
- Two waterfront developments involving Crown Lands, Fisheries and Maritime as well as Council
- Following pre-purchase advice, forthcoming DA for waterfront house (water access only, bushfire, flooding, essentially off-grid)
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