We provide expert urban design review and advice across all stages of planning and design. Our input strengthens design outcomes, supports statutory processes, and ensures projects respond to context, policy, and place. We work collaboratively with public and private sector clients, stakeholders and allied disciplines to deliver informed, high-quality and practical design guidance.

Our team provides clear, credible and independent expert urban design evidence at VCAT and Planning Panels. We distil complex issues into accessible reasoning, grounded in policy and design principles. Our experience spans diverse project types, and we are trusted for our rigour, professionalism, and ability to support strong planning outcomes.

We have a vast portfolio of strategic urban design projects including structure planning and urban design frameworks at city, township, activity centre and precinct scale. Our evidence based approach supports practical planning controls and implementation outcomes, ensuring design aspirations align with feasibility, amenity, and long-term place outcomes.

We prepare Built Form Frameworks & Guidelines that define clear parameters for future development. This service translates strategic vision into practical planning tools, supporting councils and developers to achieve context-sensitive, high-quality built form outcomes across activity centres, precincts and key sites. Our evidence based approach informs planning policy, ensuring that built form responses are feasible, appropriate, and aligned with policy objectives.

We develop concept designs for public spaces that are inclusive, enduring, and tailored to context. Our work combines landscape, movement, and urban design thinking to create streets, parks and civic spaces that enhance everyday life. We integrate functionality with design quality to deliver inspiring and implementable public realm outcomes.

We balance movement and place principles through integrated frameworks that prioritise people, access, and place quality. Our work supports transport and planning strategies by embedding design thinking into network planning and placemaking studies. We help shape corridors and centres where mobility, amenity and urban character are holistically addressed.

We evaluate development options through spatial feasibility testing and yield analysis, balancing design intent with development outcomes. Our scenario evaluation supports planning overlays, design responses and masterplans. We provide insight into what is possible, practical and place-sensitive — grounding urban design in economic and physical realities.

Our urban design team has a long legacy of providing urban design services internationally, anchored by our office presence in Vietnam. We provide urban design expertise on a wide range of projects including tourism oriented strategy and development, mobility strategies and city and precinct planning and urban design frameworks. Our expanding international portfolio includes projects across Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Central America.