Working with the community to revive the Hope
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A block of land called Hope: The fight to revive Walter Burley Griffin’s lost city
Today the outline of the subdivision from 1918 can be seen in satellite photos. “It looks like a lost Mayan city,” says architect Tatjana Djuric-Simovic. “It looks like a subdivision that is not a grid, that follows the topography, but there are no houses.”
Djuric-Simovic, a planner, and her husband, Dejan Simovic of Sydney’s DESIM architecture firm were commended at a conference in Britain last year for “Back to the Future” – a proposal to finally bring Walter Burley Griffin’s dream of Port Stephens City to life.
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REVIEWS AND ASSURANCE
DESIM assisted the Greater Sydney Commission (GSC) in the process of assurance of Greater Sydney Region council Local Strategic Planning Statements in 2019 - 20.
A Local Strategic Planning Statement (LSPS) sets out the 20-year vision for a local government area, demonstrates how change will be managed and identifies local priorities for updating council Local Environmental Plans (LEP).
GSC PULSE 2020
DESIM assisted in the production of the GSC Pulse 2020.
The Pulse of Greater Sydney 2020 builds and expands on the first report produced in 2019 to measure the implementation of the Greater Sydney Region Plan, A Metropolis of Three Cities, and five district plans.
Statutory and Strategic Urban Planning Services
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Development Applications
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Objection letters to proposed development for neighbouring properties
Planning proposals and land use re-zonings application
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Statutory Planning
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Master Planning & Urban Design
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Project Management
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