Pre-DA Council Meeting
A meeting with council planners before you lodge, so your DA addresses their concerns from day one.
Before you lodge
For complex or sensitive projects, meeting with council before lodging a DA can significantly improve your chances of approval — and save months of back-and-forth during assessment.
When a pre-DA meeting helps
- Heritage listed or conservation area properties
- Non-compliant setbacks or heights
- Significant tree impacts
- Unusual or precedent-setting proposals
- Sites with multiple environmental constraints
- Projects where neighbour objection is likely
What we do
We prepare a concise design brief and preliminary drawings for the meeting, then attend with you to present the proposal and field technical questions from the planner.
The feedback from a pre-DA meeting is informal and not binding — but it gives you a clear read on where council's concerns lie, so you can address them proactively in the formal submission rather than reacting to them during assessment.
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