Aaron’s expertise includes:

• Greenfield development
• Infill development, including the residential, retail, commercial and industrial sectors
• Development consents
• Planning controls (including rezoning)
• Planning agreements
• Construction and subdivision works certificates
• Subdivision and occupation certificates
• Other land use/environment approvals
• Compulsory acquisition of land by public authorities
• Land tax issues

Obtaining approval, via Land and Environment Court proceedings, for:

• A mixed-use building within the City of Sydney (requiring the partial demolition of a contributory heritage item), comprising 25 dwellings and 667 sqm of ground floor commercial space.
• A major development in Auburn town centre, with 427 new apartments above 3,999m² of supermarket and other commercial premises (with car parking for 742 vehicles).
• A 75-dwelling seniors serviced self-care development in Ballina.
• A 13-storey building comprising 61 apartments (over 1,110m² of retail and commercial space) in Kogarah.
• The re-development of a heritage-listed post office as a four-storey mixed use building comprising 10 residential units over ground-floor retail (in the Waverley local council area)
• The subdivision for, and construction of, 43 attached dwellings in Western Sydney.
• A 998 sqm service station and food and drink premises on the north coast of NSW.
• A five-storey mixed use development, including 63 apartments, a supermarket, a restaurant and commercial premises in Western Sydney.
• The subdivision of a six-lot site into 101 lots in northern Sydney.
• A 40-unit residential flat building in southern Sydney.
• A 13 storey mixed use building with 106 residential units and two commercial premises in southern Sydney, adjacent to a heritage conservation area.
• A new retail garden centre in Sydney’s inner west.
• A childcare centre for 40 children in southern Sydney.
• A road transport terminal in the Byron Shire.
• A 50 per cent reduction in the Valuer-General’s land value assessment (for an inner west supermarket site) with a consequent reduction in tax liability.

• Accredited by the Law Society as a specialist in planning and environment law
• Registered Planner, Planning Institute of Australia
• Steering Committee member, Urban Taskforce Australia
• Environmental Planning Law Association of NSW
• National Environmental Law Association
• Recommended Lawyer, Planning and Development Law, Doyle’s Guide