Sydney
Practical, economically viable & sustainable planning solutions.
We provide Urban Planning, Policy & Analytics, Social Planning, Environmental Planning and Plantech solutions to complex social, environmental and policy challenges.
We support our clients with advisory, consulting, and client side resources to deliver leading planning outcomes.
Advisory
We offer strategic planning advice to our clients that is both bespoke and goal-orientated. We meticulously analyse the project and background information to identify a clear planning pathway, map out the timeframe, pinpoint valuable opportunities, and assess the potential risks. We work in collaboration with our clients at all stages of the project and harness our industry network to create unmatched strategic outcomes that are uniquely built for your project.
Consulting
Mecone is a trusted consulting partner providing expert advice, valuable insights, and strategic guidance to our clients. We pioneer bespoke, tailored solutions that meet the practical, innovative, and sustainable needs of every project. To us, consulting is more than good advice – it’s lasting relationships, viable solutions and outcomes that positively affect the future of Australia.
Client Side Resources
Mecone provides client side services to both government and private sector clientele, such as developers and builders. From policy, to strategy, statutory planning, development assessment and planning project coordination, we embed our expert team into the projects providing extensive and valuable expertise, skills, and knowledge to enhance and carry out the project.
Our Services
Urban Planning
Urban Planning is the key to creating better urban outcomes. We are dedicated to helping our clients achieve this.
Our adept team of planners offer statutory planning, strategic planning, precinct planning advice, development assessment, and community needs analysis services to help our clients realise their project vision and goals.
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How we can help
We work across a range of sectors, including residential, commercial, industrial and infrastructure, to create practical and visionary urban planning solutions that meet the needs of the community and the environment.
Our approach is centered around collaboration, innovation, and a commitment to the delivery of high-quality outcomes for our clients.
- Statutory and Strategic planning advice
- Planning coordination
- Highest and best use analysis
- Property portfolio review and advice
- Planning due diligence
- Advice on contributions frameworks
- Planning Project management
- Social Impact Assessment
- Design Competitions
- Planning Approval
- Expert planning representation at Court, Tribunals or other planning panels
Policy + Analytics
As trusted Government advisors, Mecone’s expert policy and analytics team provide a diversity of planning services to public sector clientele.
We offer evidence-based strategic advice, backed by expert data analytics. With our industry leading geospatial land use capacity model, we are well-placed to assist clients in scenario planning and investigating opportunities for land use change and rehabilitation.
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How we can help
Our policy and analytics offering includes the development of long-term land use and infrastructure strategies. We can offer evidence-based advice on a diverse range of planning policy matters including housing, employment and infrastructure to assist our clients with the objectives, vision and goals of any project.
- Policy development
- Plan making & assessment services
- Integrated transport & land use
- Technology & analytics
- Social Planning
Environmental Planning
Increased environmental awareness, growing public interest in sustainable development, and stricter environmental protection laws and regulations has heightened the need for professional environmental planning expertise. Mecone’s environmental planners deliver strategies and effective solutions to facilitate project approvals and advance responsible developments.
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How we can help
Mecone can prepare comprehensive environmental impact statements for a range of projects. Our team includes Registered Environmental Assessment Practitioners (REAP) undertaking high quality environmental impact assessments to secure project approvals for our clients.
We provide services across a broad range of sectors, in particular transport and infrastructure, large scale renewable energy projects, industrial, rail, road and decarbonisation. Mecone’s environmental services can combine expertise from environmental impact assessment, statutory planning, strategic planning, social planning, project management, construction environmental management, spatial information and data analytics.
- Environmental planning due diligence
- Environmental Impact Statements
- State Significant Development applications
- Review of Environmental Factors
- Environmental Risk Assessments
- Project Management
- Social Impact Assessments
- GIS analysis and constraints mapping
- Construction Environmental Management Plans
Plantech
Our Plantech stream offers highly effective data and technology tools and resources, to facilitate the development of urban and regional planning solutions.
Backed by leading technology, we assist our clients in making informed urban policy and planning decisions that give them a technical and analytical edge.
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How we can help
Mosaic is an interactive mapping tool by Mecone for people looking for land use development solutions. Mosaic can be used for exploring planning controls and unique council development controls (such floor space ratios, height of buildings, cadastre, environmental layers like flooding and bushfire prone lands and much more). Mosaic is a free digital tool customised to meet the needs of both the private and public sectors.
Mecone’s Plantech team was developed in response to the need to collect, curate and merge data from multiple web based sources into their own centralised data repository.
Mecone cuts the manual chore of data heavy work and processing by routinely updating data from multiple sources. By engaging Mecone, you can spend time doing more important strategic analysis for your next project or policy work. Easily access thousands of data sets and leverage the power of our continual collection, development and maintenance of data with Mecone.
- GIS mapping
- Technology services
- Transport mapping
- Thematic mapping
- Geospatial and statistical analysis
- Fieldwork-based mapping
- Constraints analysis
- Infographics
- Extract Transform and Load (ETL)
- Front-end data delivery and visualisation tools
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Social Planning
Social planning helps us focus on the human impacts of our projects and decisions. As trusted experts, we collaborate closely with clients and communities to achieve meaningful outcomes that deliver social value for everyone involved.
Our team provides the full range of social planning services across all aspects of the development lifecycle, helping you maximise shared value from your projects while effectively managing community and stakeholder expectations.
Social Planning Projects
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Strathfield Recreation and Wellness Strategy
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Brookvale Planning Proposal Social Infrastructure Plan
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2 & 10-22 Kent Road, Mascot
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5-9 Gordon Avenue, Chatswood