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Real Estate & Property Development

Notting Hill Advisory works with Tier-1 and mid-tier property developers across residential, mixed-use, build-to-rent and urban infill.We are the social and engagement workstream of the consultant team — accountable to your planner and your program, and for the documentation that supports your approvals.
Project pipelines today carry meaningful social risk: investor scrutiny on social licence, harder conditions of consent, longer assessment timelines, and more contested consultations. The work we deliver for developer clients is built to be defensible at every stage of the approvals pathway.
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Who we work with

The developers we work with

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Tier-1 national and listed developers.

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Mid-tier and family-office developers.

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Build-to-rent platforms.

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Mixed-use and master-planned community developers.

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Urban infill and small-lot specialists.

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Asset partners and capital partners requiring independent social risk assessment.

How our services apply

How our services apply to
developer projects

Most developer engagements combine two or more of our services in a single scope. The services most often called on are:

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Community Engagement

Pre-DA, DA-stage and SSD consultation programs.

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Social Planning & Impact Assessment

DPHI-aligned SIAs and Social Impact Statements for major projects.
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Statutory Reporting & Impact Assessments

Engagement outcomes reports, response-to-submissions documents, CPTED reports, economic impact assessments.
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How we work

How we work with developer teams

We sit inside your consultant team. On most projects we coordinate with the planner who owns the SEE, the urban designer or architect, and the legal and commercial leads. Where culturally-specific or technical specialist work is needed — Aboriginal heritage engagement, traffic impact, CPTED detailing — we work alongside those specialists rather than substitute for them.

Projects that take the long view on community relations have a meaningfully easier path through approvals and operations.
Our default cadence during active engagement phases is fortnightly project meetings, with a single point of contact on our side throughout. Confidentiality on pre-lodgement projects is standard practice; we routinely work under NDAs and accept conflict-of-interest provisions.
Procurement

Procurement and engagement

Fixed-Fee Project Engagements

Project-by-project fixed-fee engagement (our default).

Standing Offer Arrangements

Standing-offer arrangements for developer clients with rolling pipelines.

Sub-Consultant Planning Support

Sub-consultant arrangements via your retained planning consultant.

Strategic Planning Retainers

Retainer for longer-running strategic work across multiple sites.

Frequently asked

Frequently asked questions

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Will your work be referenced by our planner in the SEE?
Yes. Our engagement outcomes report and SIA are routinely cited in the SEE and incorporated into the application package. We coordinate with your planner throughout so the narrative is consistent across documents.
Either works. Most of our developer engagements are direct, but we are regularly appointed as a sub-consultant by planning consultants on their recommendation.
Yes. While our primary audience is the consent authority, our reports are designed to be useful for internal approvals, capital-partner due diligence, and board updates. We can prepare abridged versions for internal use if needed.
Yes. Pre-lodgement and pre-public engagement is routine for us. We accept standard confidentiality and conflict-of-interest provisions.
Yes, with caveats. We will be honest about the implications — late-stage engagement is often more expensive and produces stronger conditions of consent than would have otherwise been needed. We will scope realistically and tell you what we can and can’t recover.
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Whether you’re scoping a new project or refining an existing program, we’d welcome a conversation.
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