- DA for major soft and hard landscaping project on rural residential property: Consent received
- Unapproved industrial land use in existing building: advice on rectification for new lessee
- Proposal to install tiny home: Opinion - exempt from approval
- Subdivision proposal: Opinion
- Application when owner built an unapproved structure as well as an approved structure, certifier correctly would not sign off
- Pre-DA advice about rural activities that need approval, are exempt from approval or are complying development
- Extensive advice about purchase of adjacent residential lot, demolition of cottage, tree removal, potential for bulky new house
- Construction Certificate stage for major landscaping with pool
- Advice on submission against a neighbour’s commercial development proposal which is contrary to the person’s social media claims
- Pre-development advice re multiple dwellings (1 existing now not approved)
- Forthcoming DA for industrial depot
- Advice about proposed tiny home and unapproved shed conversion, rural
- Threatened breach against homeowner for unapproved hard landscaping: applications lodged
- Threatened breach against homeowner for unapproved jetty: applications lodged
- Threatened breach against homeowner for unapproved extra dwellings: applications lodged
- Forthcoming DA for dual occupancy on constrained but large lot with land loss due to highway widening
- Application lodged DA for another doggy day care on rural land
- Breached home owner – unapproved major renovations, bushfire threat
- Threatened breach of rural home owner – unapproved house, unapproved cottage, unapproved pond/pool
- DA for industrial building with 6 warehouses, 23 storage units with site constraints; Consent received
- CDC issued for lift installation into existing semi-detached dwelling
- Two waterfront developments involving Crown Lands, Fisheries and Maritime as well as Council
- Following pre-purchase advice, DA lodged for waterfront house (water access only, bushfire, flooding, essentially off-grid)
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