Town Planning Consultants

Town planning consultants delivering advice and permit applications across Australia.

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Town Planning

Our town planning consultants identify issues early and advise on the best way forward, so everyone can make informed decisions.

From site acquisition and approval strategies to project management, planning permit applications and scheme amendments, we give considered advice at every step.

We’ve built strong relationships with councils and state governments across Australia, giving us local insight into planning pathways across different jurisdictions.

We work with you to map the approval pathway early, identify potential challenges and keep projects moving. Where possible, we negotiate practical resolutions before matters escalate. When they do, our team regularly appears before tribunals and planning panels, providing advocacy and expert evidence for our clients.

For more than 40 years, we’ve helped secure approvals for a wide range of projects, from dual occupancies and high-rise apartments to aged care, retirement living, mixed-use and retail developments.

We also support complex commercial and institutional projects where operational requirements are critical to the approval process. Our experience includes industrial parks, data centres, wind and solar farms, and battery energy storage systems (BESS).

With planning expertise supported by our multidisciplinary teams, we bring the right people together early to help projects navigate approvals and achieve considered outcomes.

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Permit Applications

Planning

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.

Civil and Administrative Tribunal and Panel Representation

Planning

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.

Planning Due Diligence

Planning

We identify planning issues early and advise on the best way forward.

Ratio's due diligence assessments combine our planners' comprehensive understanding of planning controls with the project's commercial viability.

As an essential first step in any project, a Ratio due diligence assessment provides a clear vision of the opportunities and risks of any potential site.

Planning Scheme Amendments

Planning

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.

Gambling, Gaming and Liquor Licenses – Social and Economic Impact Assessments

Planning

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.