PLANNING LAWYERS SYDNEY

Trusted Planning Lawyers of Sydney.

Ters Planning Lawyers Sydney are recognised for combining legal integrity with strategic and innovative insight to advance their clients' planning intentions. The team provides expert legal advice on land use, zoning, and development matters across New South Wales. Their focus includes legal strategic advice, effective pathways to achieving results, and intuitive insight in case management. With over 20 years of experience in planning, property, environmental, and development law, they empower clients to manage legal challenges with confidence.

 

With an intimate understanding of New South Wales planning legislation and regulatory frameworks, the team advises clients in this forum on legal strategy, legal interpretations and operating pathways that support both legal compliance and development potential.​ The services provided by Ters Planning Lawyers Sydney include:

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Advising on land use, zoning controls, and planning instruments such as Local Environmental Plans (LEPs) and State Environmental Planning Policies (SEPPs).

Ters Planning Lawyers Sydney provide prudent legal guidance on how planning instruments apply to specific properties and projects. Their strategic advice helps clients navigate LEPs, SEPPs, and land zoning regimes to unlock development potential, avoid regulatory impediments, and optimise planning outcomes.

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Preparing and managing complex development applications (DAs), including objections and planning proposals. 

With a focus on efficiency and results, the team assists clients in preparing, lodging, and managing development applications through every stage of the approval process. Ters Planning Lawyers Sydney identify risk exposure early, provide innovative legal responses to planning objections, and ensure each DA achieves with statutory and strategic planning frameworks.

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Drafting and Negotiating Planning Agreements, Voluntary Planning Agreements (VPAs), and Infrastructure Contribution Arrangements.

Ters Planning Lawyers Sydney are experts in structuring and negotiating planning agreements that balance legal integrity with tangible and practical commercial potential. Their strategic approach ensures VPAs and infrastructure arrangements serve their Client’s goal(s) while satisfying council and NSW laws and regulations. 

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Acting in rezoning requests, modification applications, and reviews of determinations. 

The team offers knowledgeable legal advice on site-specific planning proposals and rezoning pathways, often engaging in strategic liaison with authorities to facilitate approvals. Ters Planning Lawyers Sydney also prepare modification applications and review determinations to secure revised outcomes where development plan objectives or NSW legal regulations evolve.

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Representing clients in disputes before the NSW Land and Environment Court, including Class 1 merit appeals and Class 4 judicial review proceedings. 

Ters Planning Lawyers Sydney deliver experienced legal counsel, strategic advocacy and case management in planning-related litigation. They act in Class 1 appeals to challenge or defend decisions on development consents, and in Class 4 proceedings involving judicial review, civil enforcement, or declaratory relief with a consistent focus harmonious legal outcomes and results.

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Assisting with planning enforcement issues, compliance notices, and stop-work orders. 

The team strongly represents and advises clients facing enforcement action from councils or regulatory agencies, providing rapid, strategic responses to compliance notices, stop-work orders, and potential prosecutions. Ters Planning Lawyers Sydney work to resolve disputes efficiently while protecting the client’s legal position and project's valued sustainability .

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Advising on planning pathways for strategic land development, heritage considerations, and environmentally sensitive sites. 

With a focus on their valued client's future outcomes and perspectives, Ters Planning Lawyers Sydney guide developers, landowners, architects and consultants through complex planning regulations involving heritage listings, biodiversity overlays, and conservation zoning. Their legal expertise supports sustainable land use strategies that complement both regulatory laws and client development objectives.

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Ters Planning Lawyers Sydney approach each matter with strategic foresight, innovative legal thinking, and intuitive case management. Their advice is designed not only to address the immediate legal issue but to position clients for long-term success in a complex and evolving regulatory environment.

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​Faced with a NSW Planning Law Impediment? Talk to Ters Planning Lawyers Sydney on 02 9166 7625