Services Development Applications Minimise your risk with Urban Strategies
Leading you through Development Applications Quickly, effectively and with the minimum of risk
The Development Application process can be a maze, inherently uncertain, slow and increasingly complicated. Urban Strategies can lead you through the maze quickly and with minimal risk.
How do we manage risk?
- We identify and inform you of issues upfront
- We have the urban design skills to add value to your design
- We strategise appropriate pathways through the process
- We keep you informed at every step of the way
- We give realistic, unflinching advice and work to achieve sustainable outcomes
Why are we so successful at reducing application processing times?
- We work with assessment managers to secure common ground and agreed outcomes
- We anticipate and deal with conflicts before they can derail a project
- Our reports are in easily digestible form for Council assessment managers to drop into their own reports
- We focus on negotiation skills for all our senior staff
Make your project a success with Urban Strategies from small developments to some of Queensland's most complex applications
Urban Strategies was the first accredited RiskSmart provider in Queensland and the first to achieve a Development Application within 5 business days. At the other end of the scale, we have successfully negotiated some of Queensland’s most complex projects through the maze. These include a number of Queensland icons and applications involving sensitive heritage, community, ecological, contaminant and waterfront issues:
- The Breakfast Creek Hotel Take a closer look at the refurbishment of the Breakfast Creek Hotel
- Nudgee Waste Recycling Plant Take a closer look at the Nudgee Waste Recycling Plant project
- Wesley and Mt Olivet Hospitals
- Shafston College
- Caloundra Rise Retirement Village
- St Andrews Hospital
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