Locating projects
PlanConnect is iPlan's online map display and searching tool. You can use PlanConnect to do the following:
- find the zoning and planning control documents that apply to an area of land
- locate suitable sites for new commercial or industrial development
- look at aerial photography of a piece of land or an area
- add or remove data layers to understand the impacts on an area
Site Performance
State Government planning priorities in New South Wales (NSW Planning - DIPNR)
BASIX: the NSW Government's Building Sustainability Index
"From July 2004, NSW leads the Australian states in promoting sustainable residential development. How? Simply by requiring a BASIX Certificate with proposals to build homes. The BASIX Certificate is proof that your proposal satisfies the NSW Government's targets to reduce the amount of water and energy we use in our homes. To get a certificate, you need to complete a BASIX assessment."
Stormwater Management Development Control Plan (Ryde, NSW)
Comprehensive stormwater management DCP.
Your Home: Design for Lifestyle and the Future
A guide to sustainable opportunities and practices around your home ( Australian Greenhouse Office)
Domestic sewage treatment system setbacks
Recommendations for setbacks for septic tanks (and similar) from rivers and creeks, based on an assement of risks to water quality.
Environmental Impact Assessment
Planning for sustainable development - the practice and potential of environmental assessment
Environmental impact assessment
Environmental assessment as a project management tool
We suggest taking time to check whether your current land development brief sits well from an ecological perspective - whether it makes sense, when you widen its context ... and where you might like to take it ...
This is a practical application of 'listening to ourselves' - allowing our tacit, implicit, knowledge ... our 'feel' for what is going on to inform what we do ... As Polanyi, Gendlin and others have underlined, we each know more than it is easy to say. For more on how to 'use gut feel skillfully', see Listening to ourselves.
Does your brief address its ecological context explicitly?, holistically? What ecosystems will feel the effects of your designs? |
Ecological contexts |
Have you considered how to negotiate a change to your brief, if needed? |
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When your development approach is innovative (for your organisation), the planning process can be used to build your organisational capacity to do more work of this kind. All this needs is a different approach to project management. |
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Have you considered who will be affected by your designs? Have you taken time to explore their interests and concerns? Its generally much easier to address areas of tension early in the design process. |
Stakeholder analysis |
Have you contemplated sourcing additional funds so you can take a more innovative approach? |
