element is a leading multi-disciplinary consulting and advisory practice that has been at the forefront of making plans a reality, delivering some of the country’s most iconic and award-winning places – city centres, waterfronts, main streets, cultural and transit precincts, universities, regional towns, and master planned communities for over 30 years.
Our team has qualifications across the disciplines of architecture, cultural heritage, urban planning, conservation, and history. Together we are placed at the forefront of heritage and conservation best practice in Australia. In our projects we develop a clear understanding of heritage values that in turn guide the management of change, including conservation, adaptive reuse, and balancing the old with the new. Our project outcomes display our careful approach integrated with our design knowledge, producing innovative and practical solutions that are welcomed by our clients.
Our team specialises in the following areas:
• Statutory (Approvals) Planning;
• Strategic Planning;
• Infrastructure Planning;
• Bushfire Assessments and Planning;
• Coastal Hazard Risk Management and Adaptation Planning (CHRMAPs);
• Heritage Architecture and Planning;
• Heritage Advisory Services including Consultation and Assessment)
• Aboriginal engagement and cultural context
• Historical Research
• Arts and Culture including Public Art Management;
• Urban Design;
• Place Making;
• Stakeholder Engagement for Planning Proposals;
• Property Economics;
• Retail Sustainability Assessments and Reviews;
• Recreation Planning; and
• Spatial Analytics including Geographic Information System(s).
sub-categories
is qualified within the following sub-categories:
- Town Planning & Related Services (PSP003-004)