Town Planning

Past experience and current practice somewhere between architecture and planning generates a critique of the extent to which regulations and policies determine design. 

Planning Advocacy

Unfortunately, despite the ‘plain English’ format of Western Australia’s Residential Design Codes, an application for planning approval is still an estoeric process. We have recently been helping a number of applicants, and even neighbours, to document their positions in a form that will receive serious consideration by the authorities.

This is an aspect of practice that draws on our years of discussions on house extensions and new houses, always seeking to make the best use of the land without being obtrusive, and on ten years familarity with the Codes, new and old.

We draw too on many years interest in the law, on experience in planning firms and familiarity with planning schemes gained during work at the City of Wanneroo, then Joondalup.

As submission that is clear, carefully argued and addresses the important objectives of policy and legislation gives the greatest weight to the proposals and can not simply be dismissed by planning authorities.

The pages called Western Planner are a series of magazine articles that pointed out anomalies in the R Codes.

Planning in WA is a talk to students of the local university which attempted to summarise the development of town planning in this State, and to relate recent history to the layout of Joondalup.