About Joseph
Joseph is a planning and environment lawyer in the Maddocks public law team. Joseph has extensive experience acting for private clients, local councils, government departments and water authorities.
If planning or environmental litigation is necessary, Joseph will often act as solicitor advocate.
Joseph’s areas of expertise include:
- Planning, Environment & Sustainability
- Property, Planning & Development
- Administrative Law
- Local Government
- Renewable Energy
- Compulsory Acquisition
Experience
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Planning
- Acting for a council as solicitor advocate before Planning Panels Victoria for a proposal to amend policy in the planning scheme to provide policy support for tourism uses in the Green Wedge Zone.
- Acting for the owner of a major site of which the client successfully rezoned its land through the Planning Panel process to the Mixed Use Zone to facilitate a major mixed use residential development. The matter involved complex planning issues in relation to heritage, building height and mass, public open space, traffic, community objection and setbacks to the Yarra River.
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Environmental
- Acting as solicitor advocate for Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Group in proceedings before VCAT regarding the Melbourne Regional Landfill and also the Werribee Landfill.
- Acting for St Andrews Golf Club in various proceedings relating to groundwater issues involving Peninsula Hot Springs and Southern Rural Water.
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Compulsory Acquisition
- Acting for the acquiring authority with respect to settlements of compensation for loss on sale claims, advances of compensation and settlements of compensation for various road projects.
- Acting for the acquiring authority for the Victorian Desalination Plant pipeline easements, including the conduct of several valuer conferences at VCAT.