- Advice on desired change in approved building envelope to preferred location (bush acreage, steep, severe geotech, erosion and bushfire hazards, access that floods)
- Advice on non-compliant building design, land with bush, geotech and stormwater problems
- DA preparation: secondary dwelling, land with bushfire, endangered ecological community, unretained steep slope
- Advice on rural property for tourism/recreational project
- Investigation into and advice about incomplete subdivision infrastructure yet rating by Council and water authority as if it is was all constructed
- Investigation and report on enclosure of a non-compliant but constructed carport; and dual occupancy potential beneath the existing house
- Investigation and master site planning for subdivision of highly constrained R2 land
- Townhouse development – pre-purchase advice (client bought it)
- Advice on subdivision potential (DCLEP is negative) – bushy block with flooding, species and bushfire
- Pre-purchase advice on geotech unstable suburban block, development potential
- Change of use (commercial)
- Pre-purchase report – dual occupancy potential
- Pre-purchase reports on 2 E-zoned properties – development potential
- Pre-purchase report on dual occupancy potential (large suburban block)
- Second dwelling wanted despite unapproved dwelling, adjacent mostly bushy rural blocks
- Pre-purchase reports (industrial, commercial/rural) (client bought both)
- Advice re rectification of breach on suburban block (unapproved building works, master site planning)
- Completion of 2 lot subdivision process (only 1st of 4 stages complete so far)
- Advice on development potential (suburbia: 2 detached houses)
- Meet investors to make their property search more efficient and targeted
- Assist over-water asset owner about processes seeking increased footprint and replacement facilities
- Advice on amended lot’s building envelope (new subdivision)
- Post-approval amendment to integrate bushfire requirement with ecological requirement (commercial site with EEC)
- Pre-purchase advice on demolition for townhouses (purchase proceeded with confidence)
- Post-purchase advice to client’s lawyer: heritage-listed property
- Advice during Council’s rezoning process
- Post-purchase advice on development potential
- Rectification advice following breach (acreage with commercial agricultural uses)
- Pre-purchase advice about existing building: conversion to other uses
- Pre-purchase advice (steep acreage) for potential home builders
- Post-purchase advice about development potential (1 existing building does not suit buyers’ objectives, 1 does)
- Pre-sale advice on subdivision potential (nil, constraints plus insufficient available land)
- Post-purchase advice about rezoning potential (ask us before you buy)
- Advice on impacts of a neighbour’s development, client’s rights, and what may or may not be changed
- Site report for vendor of a large mixed use and environmentally constrained site
- Advise buyer of a non-compliant waterfront property about protective options
- Proposal for an educational establishment
- Following receipt of Consent with uncommercial conditions of Consent, prepare an amendment application (2 clients)
- Mitigate impact of large commercial building extension towards bushfire hazard and Endangered Ecological Community
- Advice to lawyer during Supreme Court matter about characteristics of various commercial and residential lots that affect the case
- Proposed implementation of our Vegetation Management Plan on commercial site
- Pre-sale/ pre-purchase advice on 2 rural lots: one multi-purpose, one with minimal apparent development potential
- Assistance to local oyster growers’ association
- Preparation for DA for rural worker’s dwelling on acreage
- Assistance with aquaculture project (lease, building, jetty etc.)
- Pre-purchase assistance for rural property search
- Site report on subdivision potential of acreage (land size, zone)
- Town planning, procedural and tactical advice about someone else’s allegedly unapproved/illegal property activities
- Pre-sale report for vendor to offer to buyers asking technical questions about property status
- Professional advice about potential, during shift in a family ownership of an acreage, prior to DAs for development
- Pre-purchase advice (several sites), acreage for new business in drinking water catchment; later preparation of DAs
- DA for ancillary building, acreage
- Pre-sale advice on large lot with minimal to zero development potential, yet successfully on-sold
- Short-term holiday letting DA for large house, following a neighbour’s complaint
- Expert witness in Land & Environment Court, helping achieve a conciliated result
- Advocate for view retention, adherence to Development Control Plan height, setbacks, bulk for affected neighbours
- Advice on another’s farmstay accommodation DA and working farm definition for business plan
- Rectification after Consent of others’ inconsistent professional reports which cannot comply with the Consent (clearly, not our DA!)
- Advice concerning another’s lodged DA (house alterations and significant additions) which risks refusal
- Additions and alterations when a land use is otherwise prohibited
- Advice on effects on permissibility/prohibition of development potential, large waterfront block (awaiting draft Consolidated LEP)
- Advice on keeping subdivision Consent alive when there is no lapse date on it, to avoid house demolition
- Advice on 2 lot subdivision of environmental land, producing 1 compliant and 1 slightly non-compliant lot
- Pre-purchase advice on development potential (the client then bought the property)
- Advice to rectify pending breach notices, resulting in part from “whistleblower” who reported incorrect information
- Advice on size reduction of other’s DA for very non-compliant house extension
- Pre-purchase advice on development and renovation potential (Pacific Palms)
- Apply for amendments to approved major house renovation, absolute beachfront, approx.. $1m build
- Advice on options for development potential (several clients)
- Ongoing advice about the changes in Council’s town planning requirements
- Several two lot subdivisions with various problems
- Estuary waterfront subdivision with potential dual occupancy
- Amendment of another’s Development Consent for a suburban subdivision, to improve sales prospects (bushfire, flooding)
- Site report as to development potential which assisted in sale of >$1m waterfront property
- Advice on development potential on several acreages (flooding, bushfire, species, soil)
- Development potential assessment (1) pre-listing; 2) tidal-affected and constrained by species protection; 3) pre-purchase – acreage with multiple constraints)
- Acreage potential for horse business (pre-purchase – they bought)
- Development potential (medium density query)
- Commercial premises – development potential
- Pre-purchase advice on development potential (various clients, various objectives (commercial, residential, acreaes), 2 regions; sites with bushfire hazard, flooding, geotechnical issues, zoning and land use changes, Coastal Open Space System affected, coastal hazard, listed species/communities, trees)
- Pre-listing advice with written report for real estate agent (various clients; development potential before selling?)
- Development potential (medium density; commercial uses on environmentally-zoned land; land being rezoned for residential; commercial building; residential subdivisions; rural activities including horses on flood-prone and bushfire-prone property; commercial use of residential building; absolute beachfront residence; room in the roof and new balcony in unit building; addition of second dwelling)
- Subdivision advice on many acreages and large suburban lots with diverse characteristics (various clients, various objectives)
- Make a suburban commercial site with Endangered (flora) Ecological Community compliant with bushfire constraints, and “certify” it
- Pre-purchase report for 2 industrial lots in different suburbs with different problems (bushfire, incomplete subdivision, infrastructure etc.)