Our team combines town planning expertise with experience in project design and feasibility.
We aim to give our clients’ projects the best possible prospects of gaining planning approval while ensuring they are commercially viable and make optimum use of a site’s potential.
We have a long track record of obtaining planning approvals and assessing the development potential of land throughout metropolitan Melbourne.
Our team has extensive experience with redevelopment projects in the inner and middle suburban municipalities of Bayside, Boroondara, Darebin, Glen Eira, Manningham, Melbourne, Monash, Moonee Valley, Moreland, Stonnington, Port Phillip, Whitehorse and Yarra.
We advise our clients on projects of all sizes and types, from small to large-scale residential, mixed use, commercial and industrial projects as well as change-of-use applications.
Professional Affiliations
Planning permit applications
Planning Advocacy Services
Development Advisory Services
Strategic Planning
Development Approvals
We work collaboratively with leading architects and designers and other professionals in the preparation and management of planning permit applications for a wide range of projects, some of which are illustrated here.
Development Advisory
We assist some of the leading commercial real estate agencies in Melbourne in preparing information memorandums for the sale of complex sites or sites with significant development potential. For these projects we often work collaboratively with leading architectural practices in the preparation of concept schemes which assist prospective purchasers in identifying the development potential of the site.
Michael Dunn
Michael is a Certified Practicing Planner accredited by the Planning Institute of Australia and has over 15 years’ experience in town planning, having worked in local Government in both statutory and strategic planning roles before moving into consultancy in 2005.
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Daniel Edwards
Daniel is a registered architect who was a founding Director of Ascui Edwards Architects where he oversaw the design and delivery of numerous residential, mixed use and commercial projects over 15 years. Daniel now focuses on providing development advisory services and ensuring that projects make the optimum use of a site while achieving the best return for clients.
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Consideration of internal amenity has become more prevalent in planning decisions for residential apartment projects assessed by Councils and VCAT over the last two years with the State government currently preparing a draft apartment code. A recent VCAT decision accessible here (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VCAT/2016/373.html) has considered what the ‘best practice’ ESD approach is to assessing daylight access into a residential development. This decision follows the recent (late 2015) introduction of new ESD policies into a number of inner and middle suburban Council planning schemes.
The Tribunal found that the best practice approach outlined in ESD tools such as BESS should be followed where practicable, giving further weight to the use of such tools as BESS and Green Star when assessing the amenity offered by proposed development. Clearly ESD considerations are becoming more and more part of the planning stage of new development rather than left to the building permit stage.
Metropol Planning Solutions
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