Environmental Planning Consultants
Set and forget environmental planning solutions throughout Queensland.
Environmental Planning Consultants
Set and forget environmental planning solutions throughout Queensland.
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Our services and process
Our environmental consultancy business uses a collaborative approach, to ensure the most efficient strategy achieves the desired outcome. Our multi-disciplinary style involves our entire team of expert consultants such as environmental planners, ecologists, arborists, bushfire, GIS, fauna/koala spotter catchers, and rehabilitation contractors.
Environmental Approvals
- Vegetation Clearing Applications
- Ecology reports for town planning applications
- Local and State Government Applications
- EPBC Act Referrals
- Tree Retention and Removal Plans
- Rehabilitation Management Plans
- Code Compliance
Ecological Assessment
- Flora / Fauna Survey
- Arborist (Level 5) Assessments
- Tree Retention Plans
- Vegetation Clearing Plans
- Disturbance Assessment
- Vegetation / Habitat mapping
- Pest Plants and Animals
- Marine Plants
- Protected Plants
- Desktop and Field Assessments
Bushfire Risk Reduction
- Bushfire Management Plans
- Bushfire Hazard Assessment
- Bushfire Attack Level Calculation
- Risk Reduction and Advice
- SPP (State Planning Policy) and Local Council assessment
- Code Responses for Assessment
- Desktop Assessment of Bushfire Risk
Ecological Impact Mitigation
- Flora and Fauna Management Plans
- Specifies Management Plans
- Rehabilitation Management Plans
- Ecological Restoration Plans
- Restoration Maintenance Schedules
Environmental Approvals
- Vegetation Clearing Applications
- Ecology Reports for Town Planning Applications
- Local and State Government Applications
- EPBC Act Referrals
- Tree Retention and Removal Plans
- Rehabilitation Management Plans
- Code Compliance
Ecological Assessment
- Flora / Fauna Survey
- Arborist (Level 5) Assessments
- Tree Retention Plans
- Vegetation Clearing Plans
- Disturbance Assessment
- Vegetation / Habitat mapping
- Pest Plants and Animals
- Marine Plants
- Protected Plants
- Desktop and Field Assessments
Bushfire Risk Reduction
- Bushfire Management Plans
- Bushfire Hazard Assessment
- Bushfire Attack Level Calculation
- Risk Reduction and Advice
- SPP (State Planning Policy) and Local Council assessment
- Code Responses for Assessment
- Desktop Assessment of Bushfire Risk
Ecological Impact Mitigation
- Flora and Fauna Management Plans
- Specifies Management Plans
- Rehabilitation Management Plans
- Ecological Restoration Plans
- Restoration Maintenance Schedules
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Years of experience and expertise
New Ground’s Director, Nelson Wills, has 22 years experience in coordinating local, state, federal government environmental planning approvals processes to deliver the most cost and time efficient outcome to meet the needs of our client. Development projects and environmental planning approval processes are complex. We know that the quality of our work directly impacts your bottom line, and possibly even the success of the project as a whole. You need a provider that you can trust to deliver on time and on budget, without hand holding.
Our values
Perfect Track Record – Proven Processes
We complete projects on time, every single time. Big projects, small projects, and across all areas of environmental planning. We have the proven processes and proven team that you can rely on to contribute to your project’s success.
Business Focussed – Problem Solvers
Land development and town planning projects are complex. We know that the quality of our work directly impacts your bottom line, and possibly even the success of the project as a whole. You need a provider that you can trust to deliver on time and on budget, without hand holding.
Technical Excellence – Optimum Solutions
New Ground’s intimate knowledge of environmental science and regulations across the state of QLD means we are the trusted authority on Environmental policy. Nelson Wills is a one of QLD’s leading experts on offset planning. Our technical knowledge and strong network means we can provide high value solutions.
Actionable Advice For Busy Professionals
We do more than provide advice – we are invested in the success of your entire project. New Ground will take responsibility for ensuring you understand the technical parameters, and guide you in formulating a business plan around the regulatory realities.
Experts in Environmental Offsets
We frequently provide offset policy advice to bodies such as the Federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and the Urban Development Institute of Australia, Councils and the Queensland Government. New Ground has secured hundreds of environmental planning approvals. We have delivered many environmental offset solutions to the land development, resources and infrastructure sectors through the process.
New Ground Conservation
New Ground Conservation was established with the primary aim of delivering environmental conservation projects that make a real difference. They are actively pursuing projects that can make a contribution to the biodiversity and resilience of both terrestrial and aquatic ecotypes and species.
They are passionate about delivering legacy projects that will help to secure sanctuaries and reduce threatening process for precious biodiversity. Along the way they have committed to raising environmental awareness on the importance of biodiversity to the world we live in and the world/lifestyles that will be inherited by future generations.
From Green Tape To Green Light
We are a full service firm with the capability to handle even the largest projects. You need a set and forget environmental planning solution, and that’s exactly what we provide.
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