Environment & Planning
Development Approvals, Environmental Assessments & Compliance
Development approvals, environmental impact assessments, and compliance obligations sit within a web of local, state, and federal requirements. We guide landowners, developers, and businesses through site due diligence, development applications, and show-cause notices.
Planning & Environmental Counsel
Development approvals, environmental impact assessments, and compliance obligations rarely stand alone. They sit within a web of local, state, and federal requirements, and they often touch on property rights, commercial viability, and public interest considerations.
We guide landowners, developers, and businesses through the full range of planning and environmental legal work. From initial due diligence on a site to lodging development applications and responding to show-cause notices, we handle the matters that arise at every stage.
Holistic Operations & Specialist Advocacy
What sets us apart is our ability to see how a planning decision might affect other parts of your operations. A condition on a development consent could have flow-on effects for your financing, your leasing arrangements, or your ongoing compliance burden. We flag those connections early.
When a matter enters specialist territory such as complex biodiversity offset calculations or litigation before the Land and Environment Court, we recognize our limits and refer you to advocates we have seen perform well.
We also work alongside other legal firms, providing input on how environmental and planning issues intersect with their clients' matters, including compulsory acquisition, contamination liability, and infrastructure delivery.