Our Environmental Consulting Services

We offer the full spectrum of ecological and environmental planning services to support your project. Our expertise helps ensure legislative compliance and achieve successful project outcomes.

Environmental Services for Planning and Development

UrbanEco provides a range of technical reporting services to guide your project through the planning framework in Queensland. We help you navigate complex legislative frameworks at local, state and federal levels of government.

Expert Reporting for Your Needs

We offer the full suite of ecological technical reporting and advice in support of your development application

Expert Planners

We provide you with concise tailored strategies to optimise the full development potential of your site

Services offered

Our ecologists are highly experienced and passionate about offering technical advice and reporting to the highest standards. We are committed and enthusiastic about guiding you to the best outcomes possible for your site.

Development application technical reporting

  • Ecological site assessments
  • Vegetation management plans
  • Covenant management plans
  • Rehabilitation management plans
  • EPBC Act referrals
  • Vegetation clearing applications
  • Basic Bushfire management plans
  • Protected plant surveys
  • Permits for clearing of marine plants
  • Statutory compliance

Expert advice

  • Due diligence pre-purchase advice
  • Constraints and opportunities analyses
  • Resolving compliance issues and alleged unlawful work
  • Negotiation and lobbying to resolve impasses with regulators
  • Expert witness services
  • Environmental offsets planning
  • Statutory planning advice including road testing

Ecological survey services

  • Flora (vegetation and tree) surveys
  • Fauna surveys
  • Wetland and waterway assessments and mapping
  • Koala habitat assessment and mapping amendments
  • Property maps of assessable vegetation (PMAVs)
  • Regular compliance monitoring and reporting

Professional Environmental Consulting

Our ecologists and planners are trained to meet your environmental needs efficiently. With a wealth of knowledge about local, state, and federal planning frameworks, we ensure timely and compliant project outcomes.

Experienced Team

Our team is skilled, reliable, and led by Mark Spears, an experienced ecologist and environmental planner with 7 years in both private and public sector roles. He is ready to support your environmental requirements.

Our Commitment to Service

Outstanding customer service to optimise the development outcome for your site is at the core of everything we do. We are committed to being by your side every step of the way from project inception to completion.

FAQs.

Discover answers to your most pressing questions.

What kinds of services does UrbanEco offer?

We offer the full range of advice, guidance, strategies, tactics, technical reporting and negotiation services relating to environmental management.

Can you help with legislative compliance?

Yes, our expertise covers environmental and planning legislative frameworks at local, state, and federal levels. We can assist with services like EPBC Act referrals.

What is Mark Spears' background?

Mark Spears has 17 years of experience as an ecologist and environmental planner. He has worked as a consultant and held leadership roles at the City of Gold Coast and Redland City Council.

What types of surveys do you offer?

Our ecological survey services include but are not limited to flora and fauna surveys, koala and threatened species surveys, wetland and waterway assessments.

Can UrbanEco help resolve challenges with regulators?

Yes, we provide expert advice on strategy, tactics and negotiation services to resolve differences and impasses with regulators.

Expert Ecological & Environmental Consulting is a Click Away.

For a free, no-obligation discussion about your site and how our expertise can benefit your project, please contact us today.