As most Victorian practitioners will be aware, traditional ResCode has been heavily reworked and the old cl 55 turned into a heavily deemed-to-comply “townhouse and low-rise code.” Our ResCode course described below will obviously be reworked in coming weeks to reflect these changes. We are well placed to help your staff with this adjustment, with Stephen having been on the Technical Reference Group for the new code. We are eager to explore with local government leaders what their key training needs are going to be as the new code rolls out, so don’t hesitate to get in touch.
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This course builds skills in the drafting of the MPS and the PPF. Attention will be paid to streamlining the MPS and PPF to avoid repetition with other parts of the scheme, therefore making the scheme easier to interpret for applicants, statutory planners and VCAT.
This short course is designed to encourage staff to reflect on the particular challenges of making good decisions in the Victorian system. In a system where sometimes it feels any decision is arguable, how do we make rigorous, accountable, logical and ethical decisions?
This session explores ways to think about the decision-making process, common pitfalls, and strategies to improve decision-making.
The environmental and landscape suite of overlays require a statement of significance, and the land management suite of overlays require a statement of risk to be included in any local schedule that is applied. These statements are fundamental to the operation of local schedules, and there is limited guidance about how to draft them.
This course will set out the principles for drafting including drawing on the resources available through the Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub and provide best practice examples.
The Victorian VPP-based planning system appears to be built on well-designed foundations, based on seemingly sound principles of strategically-driven performance-based planning. Yet after more than two decades it struggles to achieve efficient decision-making and effective policy implementation.
In this reflective session Stephen explores why multiple rounds of system review have made such limited progress. In response, he suggests alternative approaches to structuring and writing planning controls that can help the Victorian system deliver on its potential.
Planning for settlements outside the metropolitan area and regional cities has unique challenges. This course provides participants with a straightforward framework to plan rural and regional communities efficiently, considering risk, seasonality, local industry and employment trends, servicing availability and realistic levels of community services and infrastructure that can be provided to support communities.
This is a reflective short session based on and expanding Stephen’s presentation at the 2023 VPELA conference.
It discusses the issue of integrity in planning, in light of the findings of IBAC’s Operation Sandon enquiry. It looks at the implications for decision-makers and policy-makers and examines the particular challenges of maintaining integrity within the Victorian system.
This is a session for statutory planning teams regarding the planning framework for live music.
It is intended as a refresher to help statutory planners meet their obligations in managing and protecting live music venues. It explores the challenges and tensions inherent in this issue.
We love to develop new bespoke training sessions to meet the needs of individual clients.
Feel free to get in touch with either of us to enquire about developing a course to meet your needs. This could be either a completely new session, or something derived from an existing offering.