Why NSW approvals get stuck.
A typical mid-scale NSW development needs five to seven different environmental specialists: heritage, ecology, bushfire, arborist, water, contamination, traffic and noise where they apply. Each one writes a document. Each one references the others. When they don't line up, council issues a Request for Information and your project sits while seven consultants pass the document around.
The technical work is rarely the bottleneck. The coordination is. That's where Eko sits. Engineering the water and compliance components ourselves, project-managing the rest through trusted specialists, presenting a unified document set to council, and managing the RFI cycle from end to end.
Note on scope. Our environmental approvals practice is anchored in the NSW planning and biodiversity legislation framework — the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. Queensland's planning system operates under different legislation (Planning Act 2016) and we're honest about not holding ourselves out as Queensland environmental approvals specialists.
What's in this category
- Environmental Approvals Project Management — One contract, one accountable party. We run the whole environmental workstream of your DA.
- EIS & REF Documentation — EIS and REF documentation prepared to the standard the agency expects, the first time.
- Biodiversity Development Assessment Reports — BDARs that pass first-time agency review, with offset calculations that hold up.
- Water Quality Impact Assessments — The water components of your assessment, written by engineers who write water for a living.
- Statements of Environmental Effects — SEEs prepared for Part 4 DAs that don't require a full EIS.