Design & Analysis

Good urban design is not just about how a place looks, it's about how it functions, how it grows and how it responds to the people who use it. Our urban design capability spans everything from site-scale master planning and 3D modelling through to precinct design frameworks and design review.

We work closely with our planning team throughout, which means design thinking is embedded in the planning process rather than layered over the top of it.

Our GIS capability supports a wide range of planning and analytical tasks from spatial analysis and mapping of planning policy overlays to visualisation of development scenarios and constraints. We produce high-quality mapping outputs for use in planning reports, engagement materials and submissions.

Our services include:
• Site and precinct master planning
• 3D modelling and visualisation
• Design frameworks and guidelines
• Design review and assessment
• Spatial analysis and GIS mapping
• Planning policy overlay mapping
• Development scenario mapping
• Engagement and submission graphics

Understanding who lives in an area, how that population is changing and what that means for future land use and infrastructure demand is fundamental to good planning.

We undertake demographic research and analysis to support structure plans, housing needs assessments, social infrastructure planning and strategic policy work, providing the evidence base that underpins sound planning decisions.

Our demographic work draws on ABS data, council and state government datasets and proprietary research tools and is always interpreted through a planning lens, translating population trends into practical implications for land use, service delivery and development yield.

Our services include:
• Population and household projections
• Demographic profiling and trend analysis
• Social infrastructure needs assessments
• Age and household structure analysis
• Migration and growth pattern analysis
• Integration with strategic planning and structure planning processes

Housing and employment land assessments are only as useful as the decisions they support. We write ours to be tested — calibrated to the questions decision-makers at local and state government level will actually ask, not just the minimum the guidelines require.

That means our assessments hold up under scrutiny at Code Amendment, structure planning and strategic policy stages and don't need to be redone when the process gets harder.

Our services include:
• Housing needs and supply assessments
• Residential land supply analysis
• Employment land needs assessments
• Industrial and commercial land use analysis
• Peer review of third-party assessments
• Integration with Code Amendment and structure planning processes

The quality of an open space strategy depends almost entirely on whether it starts with the right question. We start with the community; who lives there, how they're changing and how they actually use public space, rather than working backwards from a contributions rate or a standard ratio. The result is a strategy that reflects genuine need, is more defensible when it matters and is practical enough to implement.

Our services include:

• Open space strategies for local governments
• Recreation needs assessments
• Precinct and site master planning
• Facility planning
• Design guidelines and site concepts
• Engagement and placemaking
• Architectural and design briefs
• Cost estimates and feasibility studies
• Implementation and grant funding strategies
• Contributions framework and developer obligations advice
• Open space audit and gap analysis