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aup town planning
A healthy private development industry is vital. It provides homes, places of business and work, restaurants, cinemas, retailing centres, and jobs.
aup town planning helps developers and landowners and facilitates property development in more ways than our competitors due to our length and breadth of experience - which includes more than 15 years in Melbourne, Australia's largest, and most dynamic and competitive priority development market - and which tells us property developers and landowners need an accurate, reliable, expert planning consultant in their corner to help them navigate the town planning system and manage their risk while maximising their financial returns.
aup town planning provides this level of service.
We excel in the 'basics' - getting planning permits for as little time and cost as possible - but we also help developers find the right properties, advise on how best to develop a property to reduce risk and maximise financial gains, advise landowners of their rights and help resolve disputable with Council, and help landowners/developers rezone property.
This makes us as close to a 'complete' town planning consulting business as you get on the Sunshine Coast/Regional Queensland.
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Its not all business
We're not just about being a successful business.
aup town planning + Polils is a place where anyone wanting to know about, gain advice concerning, and participate in rational discourse regarding - town planning, property development, and the future of the Sunshine Coast - can engage and learn - and build a community of leaders.
It's clear the Sunshine Coast isn't well placed for the massive changes and growth its experiencing. Infrastructure - roads, public transport, sewerage, water supply, health care, libraries, emergency and social housing - all of it - is beyond breaking point.....and a growing city's needs more than seasonal holiday makers, a declining farming sector, and over-55 service industries to live on.
It's easy to blame Councils, I often do, but they're under resourced and, well, it's not just their fault - well not directly at least. The reality is - we live in an age where inspired, rational, and competent leadership is lacking.
There is only one place where such leadership can come from - the people.
So, we're raising awareness of the need for everyone to get interested in town planning....and not just getting planning permits - actually getting involved in planning how the Sunshine Coast will manage growth and change, become a place more welcoming of diversity in all its forms, broaden the economic base, promote more socially and ecologiclly sustainable ways of living - based on an appreciation of the real complexities of urban life.
Tony Comrie
Principal
Bach. Humanties
Masters Urban Planning.
What town planning means to me
My name is Tony Comrie. I was born and raised in Queensland, then moved to Melbourne in 1997 where I worked as a town planner. I moved home in 2016.
I've pretty much done it all - state and local government, consultancies, developers, big projects, small projects, residential, commercial, industrial, education, aged care, health care, statutory, strategic, policy - you get the idea.
One thing I know for sure - too many town planners (government and private) take themselves too seriously - or don't take what they're supposed to be doing seriously enough.
They get all caught up in the process, the arguments, thinking they're important, the money and prestige, the suits, negotiations, Court appeals, the PIA soirees. etc.
...but town planning's just a tool - for keeping/ people happier, live more satisfying and fulfilling lives in close proximity, minimising their ecological footprints, and building socially coherent communities.