Getting Your Development Approved, Without Losing Momentum
A development approval stalls for one reason more than any other: nobody is managing the process end to end. Mainsave provides the DA project management Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Wollongong developers rely on to keep council submissions, consultants and conditions moving until the approval is in hand.
Every Moving Part of a Development Approval, Managed From One Side of the Table
A DA is rarely one document — it's a set of consultants, reports and council touchpoints that all need to line up. We coordinate all of it, on your side of the table, so the approval doesn't stall waiting on someone else's inbox.
- Preparing and lodging council submissions, including pre-lodgement meetings and follow-up
- Managing the application through the NSW Planning Portal from lodgement to determination
- Engaging and coordinating a town planner to prepare the planning report and Statement of Environmental Effects
- Briefing and coordinating the specialist reports a DA typically needs — traffic, acoustic, accessibility, bushfire or flooding assessments as relevant to the site
- Keeping consultants, architect and engineers aligned so reports are consistent with each other and with the drawings
- Responding to council requests for information and additional detail without losing time in the queue
- Tracking timeframes and flagging risk to the program early, not after a deadline is missed
- Reviewing conditions of consent once approved, and clarifying what each one requires before construction
You've Got a Project. You Need Someone Running the Approval.
This service is for business owners and developers who already have a project they believe stacks up, and now need someone managing the approval process itself — not writing the town planning report personally, but making sure everyone who needs to is engaged, briefed, and delivering on time.
Where this fits
If you haven't yet confirmed the numbers and the planning controls support what you want to build, that groundwork belongs in property feasibility and development advisory first — both feed directly into a stronger, better-prepared DA. If you're past that point and ready to lodge, this is where Mainsave takes over: running DA project management in Sydney and beyond so you're not chasing consultants or council on top of running your business.
Planning & DA coordination is the bridge between a project that's designed and a project that's approved to build.
"An approval that stalls in the queue costs more than the fees ever will — the real cost is the months of holding costs and lost momentum while it sits waiting on someone."
See What Happens After ApprovalPart of a Continuous Process, Not a One-Off Task
Planning & DA coordination works best as one link in a continuous chain — from confirming the project stacks up, to getting it approved, to delivering it on site.
1. Property Feasibility
Before you lodge anything, confirm the site and the numbers actually stack up.
Start With Feasibility2. Development Advisory
Shape the brief, the concept and the consultant team so the DA is built on solid ground.
Explore Advisory3. Client-Side Project Management
Once you're approved, we can keep running the project through to construction and delivery.
See Client-Side PM