Environment & Planning
Our Environment and Planning Group provides strategic advice in a commercially sensitive fashion to ensure our clients understand and comply with environmental and planning laws.
For good reason, developers, property owners, local government bodies, government agencies, energy and resources companies and employers of all kinds trust our dedicated team of environment and planning specialists.
Our expertise includes:
- Licenses - Applications, reviews, appeals and modifications
- Compliance - Incident management, investigations, enforcement powers and administrative notices (eg clean up and prohibition)
- Contaminated land
- Pollution
- Risk management - Regulatory due diligence including environmental management systems, procedures, training, auditing and governance
- Greenhouse Gas abatement schemes including proposed national greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme
- Dangerous Goods
- Biobanking - legislation, suspension and liabilities
- Cultural Heritage
- Flora and Fauna including threatened species
- Enforcement / Prosecution
- Land Use Planning - State, Regional and local
- Planning controls and Policies
- Infrastructure development
- Development Consents and Modification
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Certification - Subdivision, certification, occupation and building certificates
- Section 94 developer contributions and planning and agreements
- Enforcement of planning laws including all classes of the Land and Environment Court and its appellate jurisdiction
- Environment Planning Instruments
- Functions under Part 4 and Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979
- Public land
- Service functions
- Conduct issues and probity
- Rates and charges
- Liability and immunities
- Regulatory functions
- Access to information
- Compulsory acquisitions
- Compensation
- Land tax
See our Environment & Planning Experience page.
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