Challenges with this project included balancing competing long term and short term demands for parking, consolidation of former parking strategies into a single cohesive document including targeted analysis to justify recommendations, establishing appropriate boundaries for the parking overlays to apply, preparation of draft Planning Scheme Amendment documentation necessary to seek Ministerial Authorisation and responding to submissions in relation to exhibited documentation.

The Planning Scheme Amendment was adopted, and the reduced car parking rates and cash-in-lieu mechanism is now included at Clause 45.09 of the Latrobe Planning Scheme.

We built a comprehensive case that a car-free development could work in this location without disadvantaging other residents or creating on-street parking problems.

Our services have included design assistance, traffic and parking surveys, a traffic report, and expert evidence by Charmaine Dunstan at the Victorian Civil Appeals Tribunal.

The application has been approved.

As part of a review of the allocation of road space, including the existing parking provision, we conducted parking occupancy surveys across the Ballarat CBD.

Our detailed analysis reviewed potential parking scenarios, and recommended an upgraded parking management approach.

Extensive research was undertaken into electronic billboards and their impact on driver performance. Field investigations, in‐car video and GPS location data were used to assess the potential impacts of the sign.

The sign is now operational.

Traffix Group conducted extensive parking surveys as part of its detailed analysis of the proposal on behalf of the client.

After a Victorian Civil Appeals Tribunal hearing involving multiple opposing traffic expert views, the application was approved.