Owners lodging a DA for alterations, additions or a new single dwelling who need the planning document done properly the first time.
A complete Statement of Environmental Effects (SEE) prepared by a town planner to accompany your Development Application (DA), written to Inner West Council's template and lodgement requirements. The SEE assesses your proposal against the Inner West Local Environmental Plan (IWLEP), relevant State Environmental Planning Policies (SEPPs) and the development control plan, with compliance tables the assessing officer can work through quickly.
A reasonably settled set of drawings. The SEE describes and justifies the design, so major design changes mid-draft mean rework — the included revision round covers alignment with final drawings, not a redesign.
The SEE argues merit-based variations to development control plan provisions. A breach of an IWLEP standard like height or floor space needs a Clause 4.6 request, which is a separate document quoted separately, typically around $1,300 to $1,500.
No document can. What it does is remove the avoidable refusal reasons — poor justification, missing assessment, sloppy compliance tables — so the application is judged on its real merits.
Scope depth. Basic template jobs sell from around $800; senior planning firms charge $3,500 or more with drawing review included. Ours sits in between: a properly argued document for a single dwelling, without the premium-firm overhead.
Heritage conservation area sites usually also need a heritage impact statement, which we can arrange. Dual occupancy and multi-dwelling SEEs involve more assessment heads and are quoted separately.
