Welcome to Big Picture Urban Rural, Consultant Town Planners, Melbourne!

Matt Gorman, Consultant Town Planner

We provide cost effective and responsive professional

• advice (verbal and written);
• documentation (report and letter writing); and
• advocacy (at VCAT, panels and councils);

regarding:

• planning permit applications,
• planning appeals;
• development plans; and
• other planning and liquor licensing issues;

for:

• councils and other public authorities;
• builders and other small businesses;
• design and development professionals, including architects, designers, land surveyors, building surveyors, solicitors and other town planning consultants; and
• land owners.

As well as extensive experience in urban medium density housing under Rescode/Clause 54 or 55 (the bread and butter of consultant town planners), we also have significant expertise in:

• rural residential development (including dwellings, sheds, dependent persons units etc) in the Farming Zone, the Rural Living Zone, the Rural Conservation Zone, the Rural Activity Zone, the Green Wedge Zone, the Green Wedge A Zone, and/or in the Wildfire/Bushfire Management Overlay, in proclaimed catchments (often covered by the Environmental Significance Overlay) and/or along the coast;

• subdivision, including broadacre subdivision, subdivision of existing development,  medium-sized residential infill subdivision and rural subdivision;

• development in smaller cities, towns, townships, and settlements;

• development in Heritage Overlays;

• liquor licensing-related permit applications, including for new licensed premises (restaurants, cafes, hotels, taverns etc) and for increased hours, increase patrons, increased red line areas etc for existing licensed premises and including Cumulative Impact Assessments pursuant to the “Swancom” decision (City of Yarra) or DPCD Practice Note 61 (elsewhere);

• industrial or warehouse use and development;

• commercial advertising signs (Clause 52.05);

• waiving or reduction of car parking requirements (Clause 52.06);

• residential and mixed use developments of four or more storeys (Clause 52.35);

• potentially controversial and/or complex rural uses and developments, including dog keeping, intensive animal husbandry (broiler farms, piggeries etc), timber plantations, and native vegetation removal;

• other controversial and/or historically complicated permit applications that require sophisticated and sensitive handling by an experienced town planner through the council and/or appeals process.

BPUR Business Presentation (10 pages)	BPUR Business Flyer (one page)

BPUR Town Planning Advisory Notes

Advisory Note No. 1 - "Site Analysis:  12 steps to determine the feasibility of land use and development proposals in Victoria, Australia"

This Advisory Note is intended to help those who are thinking of using or developing land in Victoria but do not fully understand how planning schemes work or what factors to look at when working out whether a particular proposal is feasible (ie whether it is likely to get a permit) or not from a planning perspective.

It is specifically geared towards people who are new to medium density residential development but contains principles relevant to all types of land use or development.

BPUR Town Planning Advisory Note No. 1 (nine pages)