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Environment & Planning - Australia
What the Team is Known For
Lavan is a Perth-based firm with noted capabilities for advising landowners, developers and government on a range of environment and planning issues. The team is proficient at handling compliance and approval issues as well as rights, liabilities and reviews. The environment and planning team also has particularly extensive experience advising on the implications, management, acquisition and disposal of contaminated land.
Strengths
The firm has an experienced team with a proven track record.
Lavan understands local conditions and what is usual in relation to these types of agreements.
Work Highlights
Lavan assisted Woolworths WA project team on a supermarket development of the Captain Stirling site in Nedlands.
Notable practitioners
Craig Wallace acts prominently across a comprehensive range of planning and environmental issues, acting for both developers and government agencies and offering particularly extensive experience of approval mandates and matters concerning contaminated land.
Craig is a great advisor and highly responsive.
Paul McQueen is an experienced handler of planning application and land contamination and compensation matters for developer clients and has also litigated practice area issues at Supreme Court of Western Australia, Federal Court and High Court levels.
Paul has always delivered exemplary levels of service and achieved positive outcomes in a sophisticated and commercially-aware manner.
Paul McQueen is very astute and knowledgeable - also very well-connected.