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We use our extensive experience to navigate increasingly complex regulatory environments, ensuring that you have a permit in your hand as early as possible.

Our town planning team are experts at approval strategies for all types of projects. With a deep understanding of the planning process, we know where to push boundaries and where there are risks. We can provide clear advice on the prospects of permit success.

We regularly obtain planning permits for every type of project. We've helped gain planning approval for everything from childcare centres to educational facility masterplans, gaming and licensed venues to residential and commercial projects.

Expert witnesses and panel representation can be critical in achieving permit success. That's why engaging Ratio can make a huge difference to your project.

Honed by hours under cross examination, our expert witness planners and urban designers regularly provide trusted and convincing advice across a range of specialties.

We are talented advocates, able to put your case forward strongly and persuasively for Civil and Administrative Tribunal appeals, mediations, planning panels and consumer affairs.

Our extensive expert witness and advocate experience means that we can provide reliable and informed advice, guiding your project's success.

Our expertise across a wide variety of development types and scales forms a strong foundation of knowledge that is regularly sought for the purpose of expert testimony to Civil and Administrative Tribunals, Planning Panels and Advisory Committees.

Our urban design experts regularly provide specialist urban design analysis and advice at the RFI stage of the planning application process as well as for the settlement of plans at mediation or compulsory conferences.
Prior to forming advice, we undertake site and context analysis, and a detailed assessment of the architectural plans is to inform our expert opinion.

The depth of knowledge and experience at Ratio uniquely qualifies us to provide comprehensive due diligence Assessments for our clients.

Our due diligence assessments identify all relevant traffic and transport-related issues, concisely conveying the potential risk, opportunities and constraints that may occur during the development process.

Our clients particularly value our ability to provide considered potential solutions to any issues identified during the due diligence process, saving them both time and money.

We're here to help bring projects to life, even if that means guiding you through the often-lengthy planning scheme amendment process.

Ratio has extensive experience with changing property zones and adjusting development controls for projects constrained by the existing planning scheme.

With our network of connections across local and state government, we're here to ensure that everyone works together for the good of your project.

Our planning team are knowledge specialists when it comes to gambling, gaming and liquor licensed venues.

We regularly manage applications for gambling, gaming and liquor licenses. We provide an experienced and authoritative voice as experts in this space. Our team are often called upon to give expert evidence for these matters and provide social and economic assessments that can determine a net community benefit.

We regularly assist landowners and potential developers to explore the development capacity of their site.

Testing site capacity helps overcome the challenges of finding a site for your project, assessing the feasibility of an existing site, developing a planning approval strategy, and providing clear design direction for the project architect.

Working alongside our Planning and Transport team, we analyse the potential of your site, and provide advice on possible risks and opportunities to inform an achievable development outcome.

We prepare urban design statements to accompany a range of planning applications.

An urban design statement can assist to represent a site, its context and design influences, set out the design rationale for the project and discuss its merits with visual support.

This also allows for design issues to be anticipated at outset of the planning approval process.

Ratio’s transport team bring a vast amount of specialist knowledge and hands-on experience to your car parking project.

We’re industry leaders in designing parking precinct plans, parking layouts and mechanical car stackers, lift and hoist parking systems.

We’re proud of our innovative car park designs, and trusted partners in shaping car parks for all types of developments.

Transport design requires big picture thinking and an eye for detail like no other. Our team of transport designers and traffic specialists bring a vast amount of knowledge, experience and highly regarded design abilities to your project’s transport needs.

We offer a full suite of transport design services, creating innovative and refined designs for everything from car parks to road network plans, swept paths, traffic signal plans and road safety audits.

We take the time to understand your requirements and apply progressive thinking to ensure we design a holistic and economical transport solution.

At Ratio, we work together and with purpose towards a more sustainable, liveable and positive future for all.

We combine specialist knowledge with innovative thinking to plan and recommend sustainable transport solutions for your project. We help to create transport environments that encourage access by foot, bike, car-sharing or public transport.

Ratio regularly works with government agencies to guide transport policies that work towards a sustainable future.

New developments require waste management plans to accompany the town planning process.

It is important to design the waste management system during the early stages of the design process to ensure the layout is functional and compliant.

Our advice ensures that waste management systems are designed appropriately before a waste management plan is submitted.

Design advice and waste management plans include a summary of recommended equipment, spatial requirements, and proposed collection methodology for the architect to design into the plans.

Our waste management team can go one step further and prepare waste management drawings and waste swept paths assessments that provide a complete solution to expedite the approval process.

A detailed plan of the project site guides landscape management and informs project scale for stakeholders.

We’re here to help you visualise how your project will look and function.

As an essential first step in any project, we have extensive experience developing concepts, estimating preliminary construction costs, and planning each project stage.