DISABILITY ACCESS AND TOWN PLANNING
Aeterna Living is a leading disability access and town planning consultancy.
We provide end-to-end disability access and town planning consultancy solutions for all scales of urban planning.
We partner with architects, developers, landowners and homeowners around Sydney, NSW to navigate your application for development smoothly and efficiently.
Our specialist accessibility advice and disability access consultancy solutions help you achieve the required levels of disability access within built environments, to suit people with any form of disability or mobility difficulties.
We are dedicated to providing sound advice and practical, solution-focused recommendations to your town planning and accessibility projects.
DISABILITY ACCESS IN ALL ENVIRONMENTS
Aeterna Living fully understands the importance of providing disability access to built environments, to ensure it is easy for any person to navigate
AS ACCESSIBILITY CONSULTANTS, WE OFFER TURNKEY DISABLED ACCESS CONSULTING SOLUTIONS.
We provide specialist accessibility advice and disability access consultancy solutions to help you achieve the required levels of disabled access within built
environments for people with any form of disability. We work with architects, designers, builders, surveyors and agencies to ensure we incorporate all the
wheelchair access and universal design requirements into the developments.
Access for persons with a disability involves numerous moving parts and distinct phases – all equally important in the development of built environments.
Engaging our disability access consulting solutions early in your development project will result in the most cost-effective accessible design, and smooth collaboration with the architect, builders and other role players.
OUR DISABILITY ACCESS CONSULTANCY SERVICE COVERS:
• Assistive Technology and Home Modifications
• Disability access audits at all stages of town planning design and development
• Detailed disabled access reports
• Alternative, practical solutions where access compliance is difficult to achieve
• Comprehensive recommendations on areas that might have a DDA infringement
• Practical recommendations to achieve best practices and meet DDA legislation requirements
• Detailed design briefs to guide the development process.
GUIDED BY THE DDA
The Federal Disability Discrimination Act 1922 (DDA) protects all people in Australia against discrimination based on disability.
Discrimination happens when people with disability – or their relatives, friends, and carers – are treated less fairly than people without disability; they are
discriminated against.
The DDA expects every area and facility open to the public to be equally accessible to everyone. If people without disability can enter and use an area, so should people with disability, with equal ease. These areas include libraries, places of worship, government offices, health care facilities, restaurants, or shops.
TOWN PLANNING
As town planners, we primarily work with architects, developers and homeowners to lodge Development Applications through local council. But there are other services we provide, such as representation at the Land and Environment Court.
Our development application approval services include:
• Urban development
• Regional and rural areas
• Development assessment and land use
• Social and community-based planning
• Environmental planning and natural resources management
• Transport planning
• Heritage and conservation
• Neighbourhood and urban renewal
• Infrastructure and services planning
• Planning Proposals (re-zoning)
• Commercial, industrial and residential projects
• Statutory planning advice
• Due diligence
• Appropriate approval processes
• Preliminary planning investigation reports
• Statements of Environmental Effects across all land uses
• Section 4.55 modification reports
• Peer review of Development Applications
• Submissions and objections to proposed Development Applications
• Reviews of Environmental Factors
• Section 7.11 Contribution Plans
• Project negotiations with consent authorities
• Representation at the NSW Land and Environment Court
Let us partner with you
Our expert disability access consultants have years of industry experience offering achievable disabled access solutions for our clients. We are well versed in what’s required by legislation to ensure equal access to built environments.
Contact our disability access consultants team today to start the conversation.