Nicholas Bunney

Bayside is one of the 31 metropolitan municipalities in Victoria employing 650 people and an operating budget of $126 million, delivering over 100 services to the community.

Project Manager and lead on the following projects:

- Hampton Hub Precinct Planning

- Suburban Rail Loop Precinct Planning and Level Crossing Removal Projects

- Bayside Planning Scheme Review 2023

- Implementation of the Affordable Housing Strategy 2021 (including Planning Scheme Amendment C184bays).

Duties include:

- Monthly project reporting to senior management

- Budget management and reporting on projects

- Stakeholder liaison internally and externally

- Customer service

- Community engagement

- Working collaboratively with other departments to realise Council plan actions

- Enabling workshops with community, stakeholders and other Councils

- Represent Council at a arnage of industry forums and groups e.g. (the Homelessness and Social Housing Group Charter)

- Procuring consultants for services when required

- Council report and brief writing

- Mentoring junior staff members

- Writing referrals for the Statutory Planning Department when requested

Acting Strategic Planning Coordinator for March to cover holidays.

Duties included:

- Lead team to deliver projects and Council reports

- Assessed and reviewed team members reports

- Budget allocation and monitoring

- Resource monitoring

- Working collaboratively with other departments to realise Council plan actions

Tract is a national planning and design practice specialising in town planning, urban design, landscape architecture and associated media.

- Project managed day to day activities on 20 plus projects across Metropolitan Melbourne.

- Projects included wineries, tourism, service stations, residential hotel, dual occupancy residential, quarries and medium density developments.

Projects included:

o Large scale office/residential (City of Melbourne)

o Service stations (Regional Victoria)

o Winery/ Green Wedge (Hume)

o Residential Hotel & Liquor application (Greater Bendigo)

o Childcare centres (Ballarat)

o Student accommodation (City of Melbourne)

o Medium Density Residential (Knox/ Boroondara/ City of Port Phillip)

o Section 96A (Stonnington)

o Planning Scheme Amendment (Hume)

o Industrial (Whittlesea/ Melton)

Tasks included:

o Writing planning permit application reports (including Clause 54/55 assessment)

o Planning permit amendments (Secondary Consent and Section 72)

o RFI responses

o Extension of time requests

o Attending pre-application meetings

o ‘Highest and best use’ site investigations

o Writing submissions to council amendments and strategic documents for clients

o General planning tasks