Ecological / Environmental Constraints Assessment

When planning a project or development, it is best that you are well prepared before you finalise the design of your proposed DA. Without doing ‘your homework’, you might be inadvertently designing a construction that will impact a critical environmental constraint on your property, hindering your development.

The best way to do this is to undertake an Ecological or Environmental Constraints Assessment, also known as a Pre-construction Constraints Assessment, that details all of the ecological or other environmental constraints that may arise during the DA. The sooner you know of these issues, the better prepared you, your Architect or Town Planner will be when submitting the DA.

WHAT IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS ASSESSMENT REPORT?

If you are contemplating purchasing a property or submitting a DA for property subdivision, dwelling alterations, demolition, or construction, we recommend you commission an Environmental Constraints Assessment Report. An Ecological Constraints Report should be commissioned early in the planning stages of a project in order to identify and minimise impacts on ecological values within the development site. Ecological Constraints Reports inform our clients on the best possible locations of their development, and the appropriate approval pathway to follow.

A good Environmental Constraints Assessment Report will:

• Be low cost to implement

• Save you extensive amounts of time and money down the track

• Help you, your architect or your planner design a development footprint that gives you the best chance of DA approval

• Inform you if there are additional specialist reports you may need for the DA

• Allow you to most appropriately and efficiently design your development to best avoid difficult environmental constraints in the DA stage, rather than risking the possibility council knock-back after DA submission.

Narla Environmental’s Environmental Constraints reports address all of the relevant environmental constraints you may encounter during the DA stage.

Implementing an Environmental Constraints Report will maximize your development potential while maintaining a strong chance of obtaining DA approval.

Narla have extensive experience conducting ecological constraints reports for various councils within Sydney and the greater New South Wales region, and have a great reputation for producing high quality and thorough reports.

We service the whole of New South Wales, including Greater Sydney, Western Sydney, Central Coast, Newcastle, Hunter Valley, Wollongong and Illawarra, Southern Highlands, Eurobodalla, Shoalhaven, Port Macquarie, North Coast, Central West and the rest of regional New South Wales.