YOU'LL BE INSPIRED BY WHAT YOU CAN DO.
Strengthen your foundational knowledge.
Develop and evolve your skills and specialties.
Build confidence and greater trust amongst teams.
Advance your planning career and get more job-ready.
CORE PLANNING TRAINING FOR STRONG FOUNDATIONS
That's inspiring planning.
From core content knowledge to foundational procedural and process—we bring the industry’s most respected and reliable planning training to your career and team.
BUILT FORM AND LAND USE ASSESSMENT
Practical and skills-based techniques for preparing and assessing land use and development applications.
Plan Reading Skills
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.
BADS to the Bone: Better Apartment Design Standards
Develop your BADS assessment skills – with hands-on-learning and real world examples.
Extend your skillset.
Develop your assessment skills.
Accross the detail.
Develop in-depth knowledge.
Better assess compliance.
Review real-life examples.
Using the ResCode Provisions
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.
STRATEGIC AND FORWARD PLANNING
Learn of changes in Victoria’s Planning Provisions, hear of trends, and master contemporary planning schemes.
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.
PLANNING LAW AND VCAT
Better understand planning law and VCAT procedures through key legislative and regulatory lenses and key legal principles.
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.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Understand environmental regulatory systems in and out of the planning scheme including impact assessment locally, regionally and nationally.
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.
Environmental Foundations: foundations of bushfire and native vegetation
A refresh your knowledge of requirements for development in bushfire hazard areas, and the definition and management of native vegetation.
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'.
DECISION MAKING IN PROPERTY AND PLANNING
Make better decisions in statutory systems, including using frameworks and minimising tribunal overturns.
Effective Decision Making Principles for Planners
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.
How to Write Planning Permit Conditions
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.
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.
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