In town planning, sometimes a road is not a road as our client Splendour in the Grass found out the hard way. The laws on this aspect have been refined over time and this link to a web article by Lindsay Taylor Lawyers explains the… Read more
Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability non-profit organisation. In this article they have identified and inform on seven areas of change that look likely to play a major role in shaping the 2020s. Read more..… Read more
Being conscious of the environment is a worthwhile cause, but it’s also one that can be tricky to keep abreast of – there are so many important eco initiatives out there!
Well, technology is always here to lend a helping… Read more
April is Earth Month, and Forum for the Future, a global nonprofit organisation that advocates for systems change to promote sustainability, has recently published a report entitled Driving Systems Change in Turbulent Times. In it, the Forum advances seven trends… Read more
In October 2019 PLANNERS NORTH made a submission to the Draft Byron Shire Residential Strategy. We are big supporters of council proactively being involved in strategic planning and we made some suggestions to assist with the finalisation of the Residential… Read more
Recently we wrote to the Minister for Planning saying that we believe that the Department’s position that scenic protection is best assessed and managed at Development Application is a perversion of good town planning practice with respect to the protection of the scenic quality.
To… Read more
Recently Planners North took on the Northern Regional Planning Panel in the Land and Environment Court about whether the land identified as a ‘proximity area for coastal wetlands’ under the Coastal SEPP was ‘environmentally sensitive land‘ under the Seniors Housing… Read more
Repairing, restoring and reshaping existing accessibility systems should not be overlooked in efforts to deliver a 30-minute city, a University of Sydney traffic engineer says.
“Planners, engineers, and – especially – politicians like to focus on building new things rather… Read more
Sidewalk Labs has developed a generative design to assist in generating billions of comprehensive planning scenarios.
Using machine learning and computational design, the design tool can also evaluate “all kinds of impacts these different scenarios can have on key quality-of-life… Read more
For some development consents
granted on 1 December 2019 a ‘Subdivisions Works Certificate’ (SWC) will need
to be obtained instead of and/or in addition to a Construction Certificate (CC).
Currently a CC is utilised for
both building work and subdivision… Read more
