Lou Fantasia PLANNING

Lou Fantasia Planning is able to provide a comprehensive urban and regional planning service to the public and private sectors.

Lou Fantasia is the Director/Principal of Lou Fantasia Planning a town planning consulting business for over ten (10) years. Prior to that he worked in numerous capacities as a planner for more than 20 years, within local government, including City Planner – City of Payneham and Manager-Planning and Development Services City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters. Predominantly he has been involved in development assessment, strategic and policy planning, environmental management, liquor licensing matters, assessment of property development potential and court work in the Environment, Resources and Development Court (ERD Court).

Qualifications

    • Bachelor of Arts (Urban Geography) - Flinders University
    • Graduate Diploma in Town  Planning - (South Australian Institute of Technology) now University of South Australia
    • Graduate Diploma in Property Development - (South Australian Institute of Technology) now University of South Australia

He is a Certified Practicing Planner (CPP) and a corporate member of the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA).

For many years now he has been successful for clients in preparing, co-ordinating and facilitating Development Applications through respective Councils. The nature of  applications vary from land divisions, changes of land use, and new residential,  mixed use developments, major million dollars projects within the CBD and Adelaide Metropolitan Area, commercial and industrial buildings of all types from complying to more complex non-complying development applications.

He is very familiar with conducting planning appeals, compulsory conference process, providing expert evidence and dealing with enforcement notices in the ERD Court.

He also has many years of experience in undertaking site assessments and pre-purchase reports and evaluations and has been involved in a wide variety of complex planning work including strategic planning, project co-ordination, project management, policy development and Development Plan reviews

Lou Fantasia is recognised for his integrity and professionalism and has a strong working relationship with planners in Local Government in South Australia, having worked with many of them when providing locum development assessment services or in previous Local Government positions. He equally has strong working relationships with State Government agencies and organisations.

His technical knowledge, communication and negotiating skills are exemplary and have enabled him to present the clients interests in the best possible manner to achieve timely and positive development outcomes.

Services including:

Development and Town Planning

Development Applications and Planning Advice in the following areas:

        • Residential and aged housing
        • Retail and CBD development including multi storey mixed use buildings
        • Industrial and commercial
        • Land division and concept design
        • Rural and regional planning
        • Coastal and marine planning
        • Changes of use applications (existing buildings/parcels of land)
        • Advertising signs
        • Development of Locality plans
        • Urban Design Context reports
        • Site analysis plans and design concepts
        • Development concepts /yield analysis
        • Horticulture and value added enterprises
        • Heritage
        • Infrastructure planning
        • Sustainable environmental projects
        • Mining and quarry

Tasks include:

    • Preparation of development applications
    • Review of Council Development Plans and policy documents
    • Development assessment
    • Statements of Support and Effect for non-complying applications
    • Responses to written and verbal representations
    • Written and verbal representations to Category 2 and 3 Applications
    • Qualified reports – Statements of Support and Statements of Effect for non-complying applications
    • Undertaking impact assessments
    • Preparing planning studies, reports, objections and submissions
    • Addressing Council meetings, public forums, workshops, inquiries and the like on behalf of clients

Rezoning advice – preparation of Development Plan Amendment Reports (DPAs)

ERD Court Appeals –

    • Completing initial assessment and advise on applicable grounds for appeal
    • Handling lodgement and required serving of documents on parties
    • Representation at mediation
    • Review of application and preparation of planning evidence
    • ERD Court compulsory conferences
    • Expert evidence in ERD Court hearings (expert witness role)
    • Expert witness – Appeals to ERD Court

Consultation & Mediation

    • Community engagement strategies and facilitation
    • Mediation and dispute resolution

Special projects

    • Research and investigations
    • Feasibility studies
    • Project management/co-ordination - co-ordinating and directing the input of a range of specialists. The preparation of briefs, supervisions of approval of all documentation for works and the engagement of specialist consultants and contractors on behalf of the client. The client remains responsible for the direct financial arrangements with the specialist consultants and contractors.

We provide specialist planning input to development and project applications either as part of a large multi-disciplinary team where we are proactively involved as a key team player,  or as the lead consultant co-ordinating and directing the input of a range of specialists and undertaking negotiations with consent or approval authorities.

In the event that our work will benefit from the involvement of additional expertise we have a good working relationship with other professionals including:

    • Building Designers
    • Architects
    • Surveyors
    • Private  Building Certifiers
    • Conveyancers
    • Valuers
    • Specialist Planning and Property Lawyers
    • Transport Planners
    • Traffic Engineers
    • Landscape Architects
    • Heritage Architects and consultants
    • Arboricultutralist
    • Engineers - Environmental, Civil, Acoustic, Geotechnical, Fire  and Hydraulic
    • Program evaluation

Strategic land use planning

    • Development location advice
    • Due diligence and property advice
    • Advice on encumbrance management issues for land holdings and projects
    • Land use reviews, including industrial land surveys, rural land use reviews
    • Preparation of development feasibility reports
    • Negotiation with local government and State Government authorities

Liquor Licensing

    • Preparation of location needs submissions
    • Representation on applications   

The following provides an example’s of the applications and projects that have been undertaken by Lou Fantasia Planning:

Major Projects

    • 10 storey multi-tower mixed use (Weymouth Towers) at Weymouth Street, Adelaide
    • Mixed use Development at Wright Street Adelaide
    • Variation a five storey residential flat building at Sturt Street, Adelaide
    • Refurbishment of an existing shopping centre at Old South Road Old Reynella
    • Replacement warehouse building for use as storage and distribution with  caretaker’s residence at Port Road Albert Park
    • Expand the existing building for use as a national and international warehouse and distribution centre for tiles and related items at Glynburn Road and Barnett Avenue, Glynde.
    • Construct a six (6) storey building with associated carparking on the land located at Dequetteville Terrace, Kent Town
    • Change of use for the purposes of manufacturing, storage and distribution of various goods and items including wine, spirits, food and household goods together with wholesale and ancillary retail of such goods Port Road, Albert Park
    • Warehouse and office development Barnett Avenue and Glynburn Road, Glynde

Commercial/Retail

    • Industrial building for the dismantling of motor vehciles, storage, and wholesale and retail sale of vehcile parts with associated carparking at Grand Trunkway Gillman
    • Retail and consulting rooms with associated carparking at   Grange Road Fulham Gardens
    • Proposed two storey office with associated undercroft carparking and landscaping at Glen Osmond Road, Fullarton (Non-Complying Development).
    • Mixed Use Development with associated two level carpark at Sir Donald Bradman Drive, Hilton
    • Change of use of former primary school building to health and welfare offices and consulting rooms with associated carparking at  Grange Road Seaton
    • Retails shops, offices and consulting room with carparking at Grange Road Fulham Gardens
    • Retail development with associated carparking and landscaping at Lower North East Road Campbelltown (Non-Complying Development).
    • Change of use to the existing building for the roasting of coffee and the sale of coffee and allied products including coffee making machines and associated products at Cawthorne Street, Thebarton
    • Conversion of existing offices to a shop and offices with associated carparking and landscaping at Newton Road Campbelltown
    • Refurbishment and upgrade of existing shopping centres at Old South Road Old Reynella; an existing shopping centre at Old South Road Old Reynella.  Salisbury Highway Parafield Gardens; and Wright Road Walkley Heights
    • Freestanding two storey warehouse/storage building at  Frederick Street, Welland
    • warehouse distribution centre Gum Street, Cavan
    • Horticulture building - implement storage shed to existing vineyard at Murray Road and Murphy Road Paracombe
    • Change the use of the existing dwelling to offices with associated carparking at St Bernards Road, Hectorville
    • child care centres, at Henley Beach Road, Lockleys; Cross Rd, Westbourne Park and Payneham Road Marden
    • New industrial building - dismantling of motor vehicles and the storage, wholesale and retail sale of motor vehicle parts at Acrylon Road,  Salisbury South
    • Single storey office building and a two storey detached dwelling with associated carparking and landscaping at The Parade Magill (non-complying development)
    • 50 metre high temporary tubular guyed  wind monitoring masts at Toolangi Road & Cattle Station Road Hallett
    • 65 metre high temporary lattice guyed wind monitoring masts at Government Road, Hallett
    • Change of Use from Industry to a Non-residential Club (Vietnamese Community Centre) at Athol Street, Athol Park
    • Fitness centre, offices and consulting rooms at Grange Road, Beverley
    • Upgrade, alterations and additions to Hotel at Port Road, Hindmarsh
    • Proposed change of use to restaurant  at Payneham Road Royston Park  
    • children’s play cafés at  Gorge Road, Newton and Port Road Croydon
    • Hotel/restaurant renovations, alterations and upgrade at The Grand,  Mosely Square Glenelg
    • Change of use to Korean Groceries wholesale and retail outlet at  OG Road Klemzig  
    • shop and consulting rooms development at Cadell Street Goolwa

Residential

    • Two storey detached dwelling with associated garage to common boundary, verandah, inground swimming pool and fencing at  Thornber Street, Unley Park 
    • Two, two storey semi-detached dwellings Angas Avenue Vale Park
    • Mixed use development including retail, office and residential uses with undercroft carparking Jetty Road, Grange.
    • Two, two storey semi-detached dwellings at  Patawalunga Frontage Glenelg North
    • Two, two storey semi-detached dwellings at  Goyder Street, Erindale
    • Alterations and additions to the existing dwelling at  Emmett Road, Crafers West (Non-complying Development)
    • Construction of a detached dwelling at the rear of the existing detached dwelling at  Brigalow Avenue, Kensington Gardens
    • Two, two storey group dwellings and land division at Brookside Road Darlington
    • Two storey detached dwelling 8 Whitbread Grove, Skye (Non-Complying Development).
    • Single dwelling on Government Road, Pelican Point, Morgan
    • single storey dwelling Wauchopes Road Port Pirie
    • six, two storey dwellings Kennedy Street, St Agnes
    • three (3) new two-storey dwellings at Flinders Street Kent Town
    • detached dwelling at Paechtown Road, Hahndorf  (Non-complying Development)
    • detached dwelling at Parish Hill Road Uraidla
    • two Storey dwelling at  Jeffcott Street North Adelaide(Non-complying Development)
    • Rehabilitation of contaminated land and eleven (11), two storey dwellings at Third Street, Brompton (Non-complying Development)
    • Detached dwelling with associated buildings and structures and the revegetation and rehabilitation of the land at Cockle Beach
    • Development feasibility options and change of use application St Vincent DePaul Franklin Street Adelaide and Grange Road Kidman Park
    • response to representations two storey semi-detached dwellings The Esplanade Aldinga Beach
    • Two storey dwelling at South Terrace Port Hughes.
    • Right of Way and access to existing dwelling at Port Vincent
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School/Church

    • Alterations to existing parish office/meeting rooms and change the use of the shared school oval/carparking area to a carparking area at Grange Road Seaton
    • St Urael Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church - Change of use to church hall with ancillary rooms including guest room and demolition of existing garage and carport with associated car parking at Oban Street, Ferryden Park
    • Christian Brothers College Junior School redevelopment  at Wakefield Street Adelaide

Land division

    • Land division 040/D026/11 creating twenty four allotments involving land contamination resolution at Webb Street Adelaide
    • Land division to create 330 residential allotments, public roads, five (5) reserves, upgrade Gundry’s Hill Reserve, install stormwater and sewer infrastructure at  Maxwell Street and Kapunda Street,  Kapunda
    • Land division to create two allotments at, Eudunda (Non-complying Development)
    • Land division boundary realignment at McHarg Creek, Ashbourne
    • Land Division at Park Road Virginia (Non-complying Development)
    • Land division at Bungana Drive Murray Bridge
    • Land division and rezoning investigation at Albert Street Hamley Bridge
    • Land division  at Turro Road,Burra
    • Land division and Rights of Way at Nugent Road Fouls Bay, Yorke Peninsula
    • Land division at Sturdie Road Fowlers Bat Eyre Peninsula
    • land division review at Two Wells Road Buchfele, Gawler

Other

 

    • Investigation and report on the status and implications of development approvals relationship between a Shopping Centre and the Hotel Naracoorte South Australia, and review the implications of those approvals on the possible disposal of Hotel land and future development options for the Hotel.
    • Objection to Road Process Order to Close and Transfer portion of public roads Blakeview, South Australia
    • Right of Way/Easement Encroachment of brine line Penrice Pty Ltd, Port Adelaide Enfield Council and Calabrese at Grand Trunkway Gillman
    • Compliance with contractual obligations Land Management Corporation and R Calabrese at Grand Trunkway Gillman
    • Development analysis and options study for industrial land at Torrens Road, Woodville North
    • Expression of Interest statement for the land at Lot 742 Chardonnay Drive Nuriootpa
    • Development options and feasibility report for residential and commercial Pennington
    • Residential redevelopment options report
    • Objection submission to the Port Augusta Local Heritage Development Plan Amendment -Affected Property Owners Consultation 2010
    • Written submission to the draft Water Allocation Plan for the Western Mount Lofty Ranges 2010
    • Development Application and Outdoor Dining Permit application for extension of outdoor dining area and installation of new seating and canopies for the Hahndorf Inn at 35 Mount Barker Road, Hahndorf and Lady Daly Hotel, 126 Port Road, Hindmarsh
    • Building Fire Safety review and upgrade at  national and international wholesale and distribution facility and  Port Road, Albert Park
    • Building Fire Safety review and upgrade Motel, Mount Gambier
    • Building Fire Safety review and upgrade international Food Court Grote/Moonta Street, Adelaide
    • Building Code of Australia Disabled Access  requirements review for change of use at 538 Grange Road Henley Beach
    • Representation to change of use to restaurant at Henley Beach Road, Mile End
    • Submission to Light Regional Council Development Plan - Kapunda Residential Zone Plan Amendment Report
    • Expert Witness to the appeals to the Environment Resources and Development Court
    • Consultation and submission to City of Charles Sturt Royal Park Bulky Goods - Plan Amendment Report
    • Response to representation for the proposed 5 storey residential building at 125 Sturt Street Adelaide
    • Section 84  resolution for property at Old Port Road, West Lakes
    • Representation residential development application Gabrielle Court Werribee Victoria
    • Compliance certification resolution Leichardt New South Wales
    • Resolution and applications to EPA and DC of Mallala enforcement notices for land rubbish fill containment at Old Port Wakefield Road Two Wells
    • Submission to land and water use survey of dams on Murray Road Paracombe by the Resource Allocation Division of the Department of Water, Land & Biodiversity Conservation
    • Investigation and report on rights of way at Murray Road Paracombe; Austral-Asia Church Morphett Road Adelaide; Gouger Street Adelaide and Pirie Street Adelaide
    • Unauthorised land fill Old Port Wakefield Road  Two Wells
    • Development options review and report at Mt Barker Road Verdun
    • Submission to draft Plan for Greater Adelaide 3030
    • Pharmacy location investigation and possible location reviews at Murray Bridge, Mt Gambier, Sefton Plaza, Old Reynella and Hectorville. Campbelltown/Glynde/Felixstow.
    • Mining/quarry preliminary application reviews at Carslake Road; Quarry Road Daveyston and Limerock Road Dublin
    • Strategic co-operation Feasibility report between Adelaide (South Australia) and Qiqihar (China).
    • Review of development implications of DC Yankalilla Strategic Directions Paper  and Draft Structure Plan for Food Land Supermarket Normanville