Built Form and Land Use Assessment
Advanced and foundational training for inspiring planning careers and teams.
Next level assessment: advanced plan reading skills for planners and development professionals
Develop your core plan reading skills with hands-on learning in an interactive setting with real world examples.
Ahead of the game.
Stay out front of new trends.
Confidence boost.
Elevate interpretation confidence.
Next level skills.
Develop your plan reading.
Throwing shade: advanced shadow assessment
Develop an advanced understanding of shadows—focusing on the more complex elements, with scenarios and real world examples.
Extend your skillset.
Understand how to analyse and assess shadow studies that form part of a Development Application.
Master the software.
Understand digital shadow planning.
Better assess compliance.
Review current overshadowing scenarios.
ResCode: Decode— advanced Rescode intensive
Develop your ResCode assessment skills with hands-on learning in an interactive setting with real world examples.
Across the detail. Develop an in-depth knowledge of Rescode standards.
Confidence boost. Elevate interpretation confidence.
Next level skills. Develop advanced skills.
Seeing the light: daylight assessment for planners, architects and building designers
Understand how daylight quality is measured, what standards can be used to assess daylight quality and how buildings can be designed to improve daylight quality.
Deeper understanding.
Understand how daylight is measured.
Industry experts.
Daylight engineering, legal and planning expert perspectives.
Confidence boost.
Elevate interpretation confidence.
A test of character: advanced neighbourhood character assessment
Develop the confidence to understand the suite of tools available to provide for the protection of neighbourhood character.
Ahead of the game.
Stay out front of new trends.
Confidence boost.
Elevate interpretation confidence.
Next level skills
Advance your skillset.
Where old meets new: achieving good design in heritage areas
Develop an in depth understanding of how to achieve a good design response that respects heritage significance.
Ahead of the game.
Stay out front of new trends.
Industry experts.
Guidance from experts in heritage and planning.
Confidence boost.
Elevate interpretation confidence.
Decision Making in Property and Planning
Develop decision-making frameworks in statutory system contexts and minimise risk at the Tribunal.
Effective Decision Making
Develop clarity and capacity in decision-making in statutory contexts—for professional and transparent decisions less likely to be overturned.
Know the system.
When and how to exercise discretion.
Steady and consistent.
Apply techniques for consistency.
Better survive VCAT.
Take stronger decisions to VCAT.
Effective Report Writing
Develop a strong toolkit for writing an effective delegate report.
Know the system.
When and how to exercise discretion.
Steady and consistent.
Apply techniques for consistency.
Confidence boost.
Elevate interpretation confidence.
Understanding Land Use Terms
Expand and deepen your statutory planning capacity to assess and deliberate on permit applications. Includes all relevant case law and key legal principles.
Effective decisions.
Build confidence assessing permits.
Across the detail.
Review Advisory Committee's report.
Understand in-nominate.
Recognise when uses are in-nominate.
Assessing Waste Management Plans for Multi Unit Developments
Gain the tools to enhance your understanding of waste management and recycling in the growing multi-unit, apartment and mixed use developments sector.
Ahead of the game.
Learn current best practice methods.
Confidence boost.
Elevate interpretation confidence.
Next level skills.
Develop your assessment skills.
Effective Condition Writing
Develop a strong toolkit for writing valid and enforcable conditions, build on knowledge gained around effectoive decision-making, and improve overall consistency.
Valid or not?
Understand valid conditions.
Master conditions.
Tightly worded, enforceable conditions.
Achieve consistency.
Use a consistent framework for conditions.
Planning Law and VCAT
The essential components of planning law, and its application in VCAT.
Existing Use Rights—When, How and How Much
Develop your knowledge of the history, context and application of these rights—and how they are established, protected, regulated and lost.
Across the detail.
Know the nature and scope of use rights.
Deeper understanding.
Regulatory mechanisms and their use.
Next level skills.
Hone capacity to deal with these rights.
Did you order the code red? Cross examining witnesses
Learn the rules of cross-examination and how to prepare to be cross examined.
Better survive VCAT.
Attend VCAT with more confidence.
Industry Experts.
Guidance from experts in cross examination.
Next level skills.
Expand your cross examinations skills.
Section 173 Agreements - when, why and how
Develop an understanding of the principles of drafting and interpreting Section 173 Agreements.
Across the detail.
Know when and how to use Section 173 Agreements.
Deeper understanding.
Understand the limitations of Section 173 agreements.
Confidence boost.
Elevate interpretation confidence.
Drafting for VCAT
Learn how to write an effective VCAT submission and understand the risks involved at each phase of a proceeding.
Better survive VCAT.
Attend VCAT with more confidence and get better results.
Deeper understanding.
Understand the risks.
Next level skills.
Learn to write an effective VCAT submission.
Restrictive Covenants - their meaning, effect and removal
Develop your knowledge of restrictive covenants including their interpretation, removal and modification.
Simplify
Take the complexity out of restrictive covenants.
Across the detail.
Know the nature and scope of restrictive covenants.
Next level skills.
Hone capacity to deal with these covenants.
The Basic Principles of Drafting and Interpretation
Learn the principles of interpretation and improve your drafting skills.
Confidence boost.
Boost interpretation confidence.
Deeper understanding.
Understand the established legal principles for drafting and interpretation.
Next level skills.
Improve drafting skills.
Natural Environment
Better understand environmental regulatory systems within and outside the planning scheme, including the role of the Victorian Planning Provisions at all levels.
Environmental Foundations: Foundations of bushfire and native vegetation
Develop a fundamental understanding of Bushfire and Native Vegetation for planners and referral authorities.
Better manage complexity.
To achieve low levels of bushfire risk.
Better assess risk.
When and how to consider bushfire risk.
Better apply guidelines
Know how to 'avoid, minimise and offset'.
Climate Change
A collaboration between ADDO and the Centre for Policy Development—aimed at improving climate-related knowledge, networks and actions.
Face the future.
Understand crucial planning challenges.
Develop networks.
Share knowledge and access support.
Better participate and guide.
In your local and municipal responses.
Assessing Renewable Energy Proposals
Understand how to appropriately assess applications for wind and solar energy facilities, including battery storage.
Ahead of the game.
Stay out front of new trends.
Effective decisions.
Build confidence assessing permits.
Deeper understanding.
Understand assessment pathways and application requirements.
Strategic and Forward Planning
Respond to changes in the architecture and application of the Victorian Planning Provisions.
Developing and Applying the Modern Planning Scheme
Understand the fundamental principles for translating planning schemes into the new VPP or PPF structures—including how schemes are written.
Face the future.
Industry experts share trends.
Go deeper.
Delve into principles and frameworks.
Make better decisions.
Develop your informed decision-making.
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