Development Potential Property Reports

Our Development Potential Property Reports are prepared for your property to allow you to know from the outset what planning controls and policies, overlay controls or other requirements affect your property, what uses your land can be used for and to what extent your property can be developed.

In doing so, you are provided with a reliable and thorough outline of the development and use potential of your property before committing any further.

Our inexpensive Development Potential Property Reports provide assurance to you of what you can or can’t do with your property before proceeding to the next stage and have proven to be an extremely helpful and cost effective planning tool for numerous clients and real estate agencies.

planning permits - Planning Application Process

JMPlanning has a thorough understanding of all aspects of the complex Victorian local government planning processes, local councils and the inherent red tape, ensuring a hands-on involvement in each and every project keeping you informed at every stage.

Jack personally handles and manages your application through the entire town planning process: 

• Reviewing your application proposal in response to the relevant planning controls and policies

• Identifying areas of potential non-compliance or conflict

• Resolving solutions to maximise the potential for Council support

• Facilitating the appointment of all required sub consultants including for example, architects, land surveyors, traffic engineers, landscape designers or arborists

• Managing all sub consultant reports to ensure they meet deadlines and application requirements

• Pre application meeting review and presentation to Council 

• Preparing a thorough planning submission in support of your proposal

• Ongoing communication and negotiation with Council, Referral Authorities and objectors

• Presentation at consultation, objector and Council meetings

• Ongoing communication with you throughout the entire planning permit process until such time as a decision is made

planning permits - Mediation, Management and Negotiation

Jack manages your planning application through all phases and his extensive experience in negotiation and mediation contributes to successful outcomes:

• Presenting and supporting your project at pre application, mediation and Council meetings and any public forums

• Anticipating areas of potential objection and negotiating avenues of addressing and comforting any potential concerns

• Reviewing all grounds of objections with intent for realistic resolution solutions

• Preparing a thorough Objection Response Review to assist Council assessment

• Representing and supporting the project at Objector meetings

• Representation at VCAT tribunal or VCAT mediation hearings.

Planning appeals

Jack is a highly experienced tribunal representative, being appointed as a VCAT advocate for a range of private clients, both in support and objection of particular projects.

Jack’s experience, knowledge of Victorian planning legislation and thorough preparation of VCAT submissions, reviews or statements of expert evidence have achieved a 90% success rate for VCAT representations at hearings and mediations.