Your appointed town planner leads and lodges the application. We set the strategy, coordinate the consultant reports and manage the programme and responses around it, so your planner can focus on the planning case.

Earlier than most people think. Ideally from the start of the project, and well before lodgement. People respond better when they hear about a project from the people behind it, with time to ask questions, than when they first see it in a council notice.

Most projects go to the local council. Larger projects may go to a Development Assessment Panel, and some significant projects can be assessed by the State Development Assessment Unit. Bushfire, environmental and other referral agencies may also need to comment. We work out the right pathway for your project early, as part of the strategy.

No one can, and we won’t promise one. What we can do is make sure the application is well prepared, well coordinated and supported by genuine engagement, which gives decision-makers what they need to assess it properly.

South West communities care deeply about their towns, coastline and landscape, and they pay attention to new development, especially in tourism areas. Projects that explain their benefits early and listen to local concerns give council and the community a fair basis to judge them. Sandcastle runs that engagement alongside the application.