Have you just received a development proposal notice for your street?
If so, you may be concerned about what exactly is being proposed, and how the development might affect the future use of your property.
Although the proposed new development might benefit your neighbour, depending on the size and nature of the development, it may disturb the peaceful enjoyment of your property.
More commonly, homeowners discover all too late about an undesirable development approval nearby. In most cases, there is nothing that can be done to stop it once approved.
What are some of the common issues neighbours face when dealing with poor design?
Reduced winter sunlight
Height towers over neighbouring properties
Loss of prized views
Privacy issues from the inconsiderate placement of windows and/or balconies
Excessive noise from elevated outdoor entertainment areas
Geotechnical and landslip impacts
Poor stormwater drainage management
Insufficient building setbacks creating the feeling of being ‘hemmed-in’
Architectural style that clashes with either the character of the street and/or local heritage.
Prevent undesirable development from occurring in your neighbourhood
iObject exists to partner with landowners in formally addressing their concerns with council, seeking to protect homes, lifestyles and investments. Our planning objection service offers landowners the opportunity to fix their neighbour’s development application before it becomes an unwanted problem.
Having the right professional support in your corner can mean the difference between negotiating a fairer outcome with council or living with detracting development in your street. It is common practice for the owners of the property that are submitting a development application (DA) to use a town planer to convince council to grant approval.
For every action, there is an equal & opposite reaction
On the other side of the fence, neighbours who might be negatively affected can either match this professional support by hiring a town planner to convince council otherwise – or self-represent at their own risk, much like going to court without a solicitor.
In an unequal contest where neighbours are not represented by a town planning expert, the applicant’s consultant planner may carry the most credible arguments to win over council, effectively unopposed. Therefore, responding to the applicant’s town planning support with strong counterarguments from a suitably qualified town planner is the most fitting approach to ensuring your planning rights are protected.
Success Stories
2 Stanley Cl,
ST IVES
44 Hopetoun Ave,
VAUCLUSE
17 High St & 19 Prospect St,
WAVERLY
26 Carrington Ave,
MOSMAN
What does working together look like?
iObject will advocate on your behalf to protect the features and value of your home. We seek to minimise the negative impacts of new development applications by.
PROFESSIONAL SUBMISSION
Composing professional submissions based upon planning grounds, rebutting any false or glowing appraisals made by the applicant’s Planning Statement.
OBJECTION SUPPORT
Offering additional objection support in dealing with development that does not fit in with the character of your area, utilising our innovative design review technique.
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
Using our tried and tested relationship management approach, we advocate on your behalf by communicating in the same regulatory language used in the DA assessment process.
Are you aware of the risks of self-representation when deciphering planning regulation?
At iObject, we can advocate with council on your behalf, communicating planner-to-planner with the development application assigned assessment officer. By using a highly experienced and qualified town planner who speaks the same language as council’s planner, you will be well-equipped to stop an unwanted development application gaining approval.
Providing a strong rebuttal to any false or misleading statements made by the applicant’s town planner in their Statement of Environmental Effects (SEE) is crucial to ensuring council is fully-informed about the real impacts of the proposal before they make a decision. A typical SEE will often falsely claim that neighbouring site(s) will not be negatively affected by the development application. Using professional planning argumentation, submissions prepared by iObject will seek to counter-balance these claims, with the goal of safeguarding neighbouring amenity. This might include protecting your planning rights to solar access, views, privacy (acoustic and visual), and even streetscape character.
Our town planner will compose a detailed submission with compelling planning arguments that can be validated by the assessment officer as reasons to reject the SEE claims. By preparing textbook material that can be easily incorporated into the officer’s assessment report, iObject is able to create the right conditions to influence the development application in your favour.
