LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENVIRONMENT & PLANNING LAW

Local Councils and other government agencies influence your life in many ways. If you are building a new home, subdividing land or running a business you can be faced with Council requirements that may appear to be unreasonable or difficult to understand.

We can help you deal with these problems. Our services include:

• Conduct of appeal litigation before the Land and Environment Court
• Defence of local government prosecutions
• Advice on building & development applications
• Advice in relation to compulsory land acquisitions
• Advice on local government, planning and environmental protection legislation
• Increasingly complex area of existing use rights

In those areas in which it is appropriate, we actively pursue mediation as a cost-effective means of early resolution of disputes.