News

25 June 2012 - BPUR Consultant Town Planner Matt Gorman appointed to Coastal Board

Big Picture Urban Rural (BPUR Town Planners) is pleased to announce that the Hon Ryan Smith MP, Minister for Environment and Climate Change has appointed Matt Gorman to membership of the Western Coast Regional Coastal Board from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2015.

Matt is looking forward to this new role and hopes to be a key contributor - in conjunction with the other appointees - to the board's important job of guardianship of Victoria's west coast.

 The new role will be in addition to Matt's ongoing duties as a consultant town planner at Big Picture Urban Rural, which are expected to be enhanced via this new experience.

28 February 2012 - BPUR launches "rural planning" page

Big Picture Urban Rural (BPUR Town Planners) is pleased to announce that it has launched a rural planning page on its website to showcase the services that it provides to rural Victorians including both councils and private landowners.

31 January 2012 - BPUR wins Mount Alexander Shire Council Planning Services Tender

Big Picture Urban Rural (BPUR Town Planners) is pleased to announce that, following a tender process, it was today appointed, to a Panel to provide statutory planning services for Mount Alexander Shire Council in Castlemaine, until February 2015.

24 January 2012 - BPUR joins Rural Planning Flying Squad

Big Picture Urban Rural (BPUR Town Planners) is pleased to announce that it was today accepted as a member of the Victorian Government's Rural Planning Flying Squad.

According to the Department of Planning and Community Development website:

"The Rural Planning Flying Squad (the Flying Squad) is a new initiative which provides assistance to rural and regional councils in relation to major projects and developments, long-term land use issues, strategic plans as well as immediate planning support. The Flying Squad has received funding of $2.8 million over 3 years to June 2014.

"The Flying Squad facilitates development through the provision of specialist expert and technical assistance to Local Government to assist regional councils in responding and preparing for growth in regional communities".

BPUR Town Planners is excited to be part of the Flying Squad, as it is a perfect fit for its expertise gained from a number of years of focusing of rural and regional statutory planning. In particular BPUR Town Planners  has provided extensive statutory planning (backlog) report writing services for a number of rural councils.

BPUR Town Planners looks forward to a productive and mutually beneficial association with those rural councils that choose to take up the considerable amount of state government money on offer.

12 January 2012 - BPUR issues Town Planning Advisory Note on determining site feasibility

Big Picture Urban Rural (BPUR Town Planners) today released the first of what will be a series of BPUR Town Planning Advisory Notes: Site Analysis: 12 steps to determine the feasibility of land use and development proposals in Victoria, Australia.

This Advisory Note is intended to assist 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.

The Advisory Note is also located on our Home page.