planning and environment unit

Our lawyers provide advice in relation to planning issues concerning developments and the environmental regulation of land use.

Working in conjunction with our preferred team of specialist planning consultants and environmental surveyors, we are able, where instructed, to provide the following specialist legal services:

• input into strategies to secure planning authority consent for site development

• legal issues concerning the remediation of contaminated land

• navigating planning controls and other regulatory requirements and addressing assessment criteria procedures, including the preparation of applications and environmental assessments supporting those applications

• drafting environmental planning instruments, planning agreements and other planning documentation and statutory interpretation

• advising on liability in connection with the acquisition, disposal and development of land, including contaminated sites

• environmental and planning and other prosecutions

• other areas of the law concerning the use, development and management of land and resources and the carrying out of infrastructure projects

We offer a special service to allow owners and occupiers to make green improvements to their property - click here for more details.

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