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negotiation & mediation skills Achieve successful outcomes
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removal, relocation & demolition Get a professional analysisServices Negotiation, Mediation & Appeals Extensive experience and high success rate
Urban Strategies Harness our extensive experience and a history of successful Negotiation, Mediation & Appeals
- Negotiate effectively Expert advice and years of experience help you to negotiate Australia's most extensive third party appeals system.
- Without prejudice negotiations
- Expert reports
- Expert witnesses
- Communicate & cooperate Highly developed communication skills and the ability to work with parties towards resolution are a key to our continuing success.
Extensive Mediation and Appeals experience Helps keep your development on track
Urban Strategies has extensive mediation and appeal hearing experience.
Urban Strategies is proud of its success rate in efficiently negotiating even the most sensitive development applications through the system, avoiding the expense and time of appeals.
Nevertheless, as Queensland has Australia’s most extensive third party appeals regime, our proven ability to successfully negotiate, mediate and appeal Development Applications means your project gets the best chance to stay on track. We are pleased to say that we settle the great proportion of appeals prior to hearing or at the expert meeting (conclave) stage.
Give your Appeal every chance of success With the experience of Urban Strategies
- Without prejudice negotiations
- Expert reports
- Expert witnesses
Examples of cases in which either John Panaretos or Lochlan Mummery from Urban Strategies were engaged as expert witnesses include:
- Minnippi golf course and housing development (BMD) Acted for a community group and achieved successful negotiated outcome through mediation
- YKRA vs Cairns City Council (2005)
- Dickson & Carroll vs BCC (2001)