We're a boutique consultancy built around experience, direct advice and local knowledge - professional enough for government tenders and major applications, still approachable and easy to deal with.
Western Sydney Planning is a boutique town planning consultancy providing strategic planning and development advice to the private and public sectors across New South Wales.
The practice was founded to offer extensive planning experience direct to clients across the Greater Sydney region and state-wide - without the layers of hand-off that come with a large firm. We work alongside our clients, councils and the community to achieve positive, commercially sound outcomes.
We help developers, landowners, legal teams and government navigate the planning system with clarity and confidence. Because every engagement is senior-led, you deal directly with the person doing the thinking - from first strategy conversation through to determination.
Principal town planner
Hugh founded Western Sydney Planning to bring senior planning expertise directly to clients - the person you brief is the person who does the work. His experience spans development applications, rezonings, due diligence and expert evidence across residential, commercial, industrial, government, retail and health projects throughout NSW.
The approach is straightforward: understand the commercial goal, read the controls closely, and set the smartest planning pathway from the start.
Deep technical command of the NSW planning framework - credible enough for tenders, DAs and formal documents.
Advice grounded in the money and the market behind every application, not just the controls.
Senior, personal and direct. You deal with the person doing the thinking - no corporate distance.
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