Infrastructure & Delivery

Infrastructure agreements are among the most consequential documents in the development process. They determine what gets built, who pays for it and when and they bind parties for years or decades.

Getting them right requires an understanding of both the planning system and the commercial dynamics at play between developers, councils and state agencies.

We advise clients on infrastructure agreement negotiations from the earliest stages of a project, helping to scope obligations, stress-test assumptions and identify the pressure points before they become problems. This includes managing the complexity of large land divisions with multiple landowners, apportioning contributions fairly across disparate interests and identifying and documenting infrastructure requirements that flow from rezoning processes.

Our team has been involved in some of South Australia's most complex infrastructure agreement processes and understands how these negotiations actually move.

Our services include:

• Infrastructure agreement scoping and negotiation
• Obligations analysis and cost modelling
• Coordination with council and state agency counterparties
• Integration with Code Amendment and structure planning processes
• Review and peer review of draft agreements
• Developer contributions framework advice

Major planning projects don't succeed on technical merit alone. The relationships between proponents, government agencies, elected members and statutory decision-makers shape outcomes as much as the quality of the planning work and managing those relationships requires experience, credibility and an understanding of how government actually operates.

We provide strategic advice on government engagement, helping clients understand the political landscape, identify the right points of contact and engage with decision-makers in a way that is well-timed and well-positioned.

Our team has worked extensively across both state and local government and that experience informs every government relations engagement we take on.

Our services include:

• Government engagement strategy
• Stakeholder and agency mapping
• Ministerial and elected member briefings
• Coordination across multiple government agencies
• Political risk and opportunity assessment
• Integration with statutory and strategic planning processes

The establishment of a precinct plan or planning authority is a significant undertaking, one that requires navigating complex governance frameworks, aligning multiple landowner interests and working closely with the state government throughout. We have direct experience leading and contributing to precinct authority establishment processes in South Australia and understand the technical, commercial and political dimensions involved.

Our role in these processes goes well beyond advice. We coordinate investigations, manage stakeholder relationships, lead negotiations with government and produce the planning frameworks and governance structures that give a precinct plan its long-term legitimacy.

Our services include:

• Precinct plan preparation and coordination
• Planning authority establishment
• Governance framework design
• Landowner and stakeholder alignment
• Negotiation with state government agencies