Image courtesy of Sunshine Coast Regional Council
Mission:
"Don't be a knob, do a good job for a fair price, then go home and play with your dog".
our guarantee
My name is Tony Comrie. I own aup town planning. You can read more abot me here - but in short - I've been a town planner for 24 years. I have post-grad qualifications town planning. I worked for 15 years in Melbourne - Australia's busiest, largest, most competitive and dynamic property development market - in state and local government, as a consultant, and for development businesses - and worked in the lw before becoming a town planner.
People say a lot of bad things about town planners - they over-rate themselves and what they do, charge too much, don't explain things property, use jargon, and often they won't take on work....and I got to say - I agree with all of this.
First, town planning, really isn't that hard. There's no reason for charging as much as they do. Second, people who use 'jargon' because they're trying to hide something or don't understand it themselves. Third, why knock back work....and this sounds a bit sad, town planning is so dull a lot of the time when I get a good challenge I go with it. I root around in the planning scheme, review court decisions, etc., - even if you don't ask me to - just to find answers.
So, here's my guarantee:
You ask us if uou can get a planning permit for "[x]" - we'll tell you exactly why you can or can't - and a lot more - in a way you'll understand, and if we do use 'jargon' words - call us knobs (see mission statement - left).
If you, say: "all the planners I've asked so far just said 'no' straight up", or "it can't be done and hung up" - or just never got back to me [after getting over the fact we weren't your first choice] we'll say "send us the address; we'll look it for free and get some advice out to you as soon as we can".
And when we do quote for something - shop us around, ask other consultants......I'm betting they can't or won't get anywhere near our fee.