CURRICULUM VITAE
Ian Sinclair

Personal Details

Name: Ian William Sinclair
Address: PO Box 1858, Bowral, 2576
Date of Birth: 19 January 1963

Education

• Master of Town Planning: University of NSW, Currently Completing Thesis on Preservation of Rural Land
• Bachelor of Town Planning: University of NSW, 4 May 1987
• Certificate in Economic Development (Indiana Economic Development Academy, USA), March 1999
• Certificate as Town and Country Planner, 23 May 1991
• Member Planning Institute of Australia, 1 July 1992
• Fellow Planning Institute of Australia, 8 November 2005
• Member American Planning Association, March 1994

Employment

• Edge Land Planning - Formed August 1996
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment
  Part time lecturer in Rural and Metropolitan Planning Issues, 1998 to present
  Lecturer Metropolitan Policy 1998 to 2001
  Lecturer Comparative Growth Management - USA and Australia 2002
  Lecturer Rural Planning 2003 to present
• Wollondilly Shire Council
  Strategic Planner - 28 May 1990 (Responsible for managing Strategic Planning Branch from January 1991)
  Manager Strategic Planning May 1994 to 27 November 1998
• Wingecarribee Shire Council
  Town Planner - 24 November 1986 to 25 May 1990
• Orange City Council
  Temporary Environmental Planner - 11 November 1985 to 3 March 1986
• Forbes Shire Council
  - Student Town Planner - 16 July 1984 to 12 July 1985

Projects Undertaken

EDGE Land Planning

• Armidale Dumaresq Rural Residential Study
• Baulkham Hills Rural Lands Study and Strategy
• Bellingen Growth Management Study and Strategy
• Bellingen Industrial Lands Study
• Camden Rural Strategy
• Cessnock Citywide Settlement Strategy Community Consultation and Agricultural Issues Paper
• Forbes Shire Growth Management Strategy
• Forbes Shire LEP 2008
• Great Lakes Rural Living Strategy
• Great Lakes LEP 2008
• Hawkesbury Sustainable Agricultural Development Strategy
• Jervis Bay Settlement Strategy
• Kiama LEP Review Rural Components
• Liverpool Plains Growth Management Study and Strategy and LEP
• Maitland Rural Strategy (Advisor to Council)
• Moree Plains Shire Growth Management Strategy
• Mudgee Rural Lands Study and Strategy
• Mount Lofty Ranges Water Protection Area - Review of Criteria for Development on vacant land for South Australian EPA
• Narrabri Shire Rural Residential Strategy
• Narrabri Shire Rural Dwelling House Minimum Lot Size Study
• Narrabri Shire LEP 2008
• Namoi Catchment 2030 Resource Strategy (in association with Parsons Brinkehoff)
• Parry Rural Lands Study, Strategy and LEP
• Penrith Rural Lands Study and Strategy
• Shellharbour Rural LEP and DCP
• Shoalhaven Citywide Settlement Strategy
• Snowy Mountains Rural Density Study
• Sydney Drinking Water Catchment REP - investigations into various aspects of rural land use for Sydney Catchment Authority.
• Tamworth Development Strategy (Rural components)
• Taree Conservation and Development Strategy and LEP
• Walgett Growth Management Study and Strategy, LEP and DCP
• Warrumbungles Shire Strategy (in association with Andrews.Neil)
• Wingecarribee Shire Rural Dwelling House Minimum Lot Size Study
• Western Sydney Rural Land Use Study for Department of Planning
• Western Sydney Parklands Agriculture Strategy for Department of Planning
• Solicitors:Planning Investigation Reports for Prospective Purchasers
• Statements of Environmental Effects: Development Application - Rural Uses and Subdivision
• Hunter Valley Vineyards Association: Submission to Cessnock City Council Vineyards District Draft LEP and DCP
• Land and Environment Court Appeals
• Peer Review Eurobodalla Rural Strategy
• Peer Review Yass Valley Rural Lands Study and Strategy and Industrial Lands Study
• Rezoning Applications
• Submissions to Councils on Development Applications

Wollondilly Shire Council

The following documents were prepared by me or by Staff under my supervision.

Studies

• Project Manager - Wollondilly Heritage Study
• Project Manager - Yerranderie Heritage Study
• Project Manager - Wollondilly Agricultural Lands Study
• Project Manager - Cawdor Local Environmental Study (Purdon Associates)
• Project Manager - Bushrangers Creek Rural Residential Local Environmental Study (Purdon Associates)
• Wollondilly Cycleways Study - Precinct 3 (Cycle Planning P/L)
• Project Manager - Camden Valley Rural Residential Local Environmental Study
• Project Manager - Wollondilly Riparian Lands Study
• Wollondilly Rural Residential Study

Local Environmental Plans

• Cawdor Urban Release Area
• Review of Rural Lands
• Bushrangers Creek Rural Residential Release
• Camden Valley Rural Residential Release
• Menangle Heritage Conservation Area
• Various Spot and minor LEP's

Development Control Plans

• Cawdor Urban Release Area (Draft)
• Bushrangers Creek Rural Residential Release
• Camden Valley Rural Residential Release
• Menangle Heritage Area
• Poultry Farming
• Agricultural Landscape Zone
• Agriculture Zone
• Rural Living

Planning Strategies

• Warragamba Silverdale Structure Plan
• Picton Township Strategy
• Buxton Couridjah Strategy
• Picton Tahmoor Thirlmere Strategy
• Wollondilly Growth Management Strategy
• Wollondilly Heritage Strategy
• Wilton Strategy
• Appin Strategy
• Bargo Strategy
• Douglas Park Strategy

Facilitation of Strategies etc.

• Picton Township Strategy
• Macarthur Country Tourism Board Strategic Plan
• Sustainable Agriculture in Sydney Strategic Plan
• MACROC Waste Management Issues Paper
• Wollondilly Poultry DCP
• Wollondilly Growth Management Strategy
• Various studies and Strategies mentioned above for Wollondilly Shire Council

Wingecarribee Shire Council

• Assessment of Development Applications for Industrial, Commercial, Tourism and Agricultural Developments as well as Rural, Rural Residential and Urban Subdivisions.
• Development and Subdivision assessment for Berrima and other Heritage areas.
• Co-ordinator of Mittagong Commercial Area Advisory Committee.
• Council Liaison with University of NSW Student Project - Impact of the Hume Highway Bypass on the Commercial Area of Mittagong.
• Co-ordinator and Representative on Wingecarribee Shire Design Awards Committee.
• Project Manager - Masterplan for Hume Highway Mittagong (Consultancy).
• Wingecarribee Development Control Plan No. 14 - Historic Berrima.
• Hill Top Environmental Study.
• Balmoral Environmental Study.
• Hill Top Draft Development Control Plan.
• Draft Local Environmental Plans - Hill Top and South Berrima.
• Demographic database and Population Projections

Orange City Council

• Lucknow Local Environmental Study
• Spring Hill Local Environmental Study

Forbes Shire Council

• Forbes Shire Local Environmental Study
• Forbes Shire Local Environmental Plan 1986
• Forbes Draft Rural Residential Development Control Plan
• Forbes Draft Flooding Development Control Plan

Committee Representation

• Berrima Village Advisory Committee
• Camden Urban Lands Strategy Working Party
• Hawkesbury Nepean Advisory Committee - Environment and Scenic Quality Working Party
• Hawkesbury Nepean Advisory Committee - Rural Lands Working Party
• Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Management Trust Planning Guidelines for Cumberland Plain Woodland Steering Committee
• Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Management Trust Selection Panel for Upper Nepean Catchment Management Committee
• Macarthur South Regional Environmental Study Working Parties
• MACROC Waste Management Working Party
• MACROC Pollution Control Guidelines Steering Committee
• Mushroom Composting Guidelines Working Group
• NSW Government Intensive Agriculture Consultation Committee
• Planning Institute of Australia NSW Divisional Committee (1998 - 2004)
• Planning Institute of Australia Policy and Environment Committee (1994 - 1995)
• Planning Institute of Australia Local Government and Regional Affairs Committee (1995 - 2002)
• Planning Institute of Australia Planning Excellence Awards Committee (1997 - 1998)
• Planning Institute of Australia NSW Member Services Committee Chair (2000 to 2003)
• Planning Institute of Australia 2002 National Congress Organising Committee
• Planning Institute of Australia Local Government Planning Network Committee (2003 to 2005)
• Planning Institute of Australia National Membership Committee (2005 to present)
• Planning Institute of Australia 2008 National Congress Organising Committee
• South West Sydney Planning Liaison Committee
• Strategic Plan for Sustainable Agriculture - Sydney Region Steering Committee and Working Group
• Sydney to Canberra Corridor Strategy Employment and Economic Activity Working Party
• Sydney to Canberra Corridor Strategy Settlement and Infrastructure Working Party
• Western Sydney Alliance Against Second Sydney Airport Technical Committee (Chair)
• Western Sydney Planners Network (Chair) 1998 - 2001
• Wingecarribee Rivers Committee
• Wollondilly Agricultural Lands Study Steering Committee
• Wollondilly Shire Catchment Committee (Chair)
• Wollondilly Heritage Study Steering Committee
• Wollondilly Heritage Strategy Advisory Group
• Wollondilly Poultry Development Control Plan Steering Committee
• Wollondilly Regional Open Space Section 22 Committee
• Wollondilly Riparian Lands Study Advisory Group

Presentations and Papers

In addition to the various presentations to local community groups and Council, I have made the following presentations and given papers as stated.

1991

• MACROC Residential Seminar, Campbelltown.
• Sydney Water Board Planning Seminar - Paper on Planning in the Catchment

1992

• MACROC Urban Development Forum, Campbelltown.
• NSW Agriculture Environment Officers Seminar, Menangle.

1993

• RAPI Conference - Paper " The Local Planning Response to Land Use Change on the Urban Fringe", Penrith.
• Environmental Planning Course for Agriculture - Paper " Future Perspectives for Agriculture in the Sydney Region - A Local Government View", Tocal.
• Hawkesbury Nepean Forum - Paper "Planning for Balanced Urban and Rural Development", Richmond.
• Country owns and Rural Areas Planning and Development: The Agenda for the Nineties - Paper "Should High Quality Farmland be Protected? If so How?, Bendigo.
• University of NSW School of Town Planning - Guest Lecturer, Metropolitan Fringe Planning Issues, Kensington.

1994

• American Planners Association National Conference - Paper "Planning for a Balance between Urban Growth and Agricultural Production on the Fringe of Sydney", San Francisco, USA.
• Australian Society of Animal Production The Future of Intensive Animal Production in the Sydney Region, Richmond.
• University of NSW School of Town Planning - Guest Lecturer, Metropolitan Fringe Planning Issues, Kensington.
• Agriculture and Rural Industries on the Fringe - Paper "When Rural meets Urban",Melbourne.
• University of NSW School of Town Planning, Planning Law and Practice Short Course - Paper "Planning on the Rural - Urban Fringe", Kensington.

1995

• Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Management Trust Rural Residential Development, Richmond.
• American Planners Association / Canadian Institute of Planners National Conference Paper " Planning for Growth Management on the Fringe of Sydney", Toronto Canada.
• Universities of Tennessee, New York, Kansas State, USA - Rural Planning in Australia.
• The Metropolitan Strategy and Regional Futures - A Local and Global Perspective, University of Western Sydney, Milperra.
• Protect Your Greatest Asset The Family Farm NSW Farmers Association, Sydney
• NSW Agriculture Environment Officers Conference - Wollondilly Review of Rural Lands, Picton.
• University of Wollongong Faculty of Law, Natural Resources Law and Policy Course Guest Lecturer, Rural and Fringe Metropolitan Planning Issues, Wollongong.
• University of NSW School of Town Planning, Planning Law and Practice Short Course - Paper "Planning on the Rural - Urban Fringe", Kensington.
• Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Management Trust Planning for Rural Areas - the Key Role of Local Government, Richmond.

1996

• University of Sydney, Master of Heritage Course, Guest Lecture, Heritage Planning on the Metropolitan Fringe, Picton.
• Scone Shire Council Rural Planing Forum - Paper "Rural Planning and the Fractured Farm", Scone.
• Wollondilly Review of Rural Lands Seminar - Paper "Rural Planning on the Fringe of Sydney", Picton.
• University of Technology Sydney Master of Planning Course, Guest Lecturer - Rural and Fringe Metropolitan Planning Issues, Sydney.
• University of Wollongong Faculty of Law, Natural Resources Law and Policy Course Guest Lecturer - Rural and Fringe Metropolitan Planning Issues, Wollongong.
• University of NSW School of Planning and Urban Development, Planning Law and Practice Short Course - Paper "Planning on the Rural - Urban Fringe", Kensington.
• Sustainability and Local Environments, Myths, Models and Milestones - Paper "Growing Food and Growing Houses - Growth Management on the Fringe of Sydney", Sydney.

1997

• Wollondilly Residential Development Strategy Seminar - Paper "Wollondilly Draft Residential Strategy - A Growth Management Concept", Picton.
• Ball State University (USA), Lecture Wollondilly Review of Rural Lands, and Picton.
• Fostering Fringe Planning - Foresight or Folly, Illawarra Planners Group, Albion Park.
• Institution of Surveyors Cumberland Group 1997 Development Seminar - Paper "Agricultural Land is a Development Constraint", Sydney.
• NSW Agriculture Environment Officers Workshop - Preparation of Rural Lands Studies, Windsor.
• Rural Australia 2000 - Paper "Growing Food and Growing Houses - The Preservation of Agricultural Land on the Fringe of Sydney", Wagga Wagga.
• University of NSW School of Planning and Urban Development, Guest Lecture, Year 4, Planning Issues on the Fringe of Metropolitan Sydney, Kensington
• Royal Australian Planning Institute (NSW) Annual Conference - Paper "Agricultural Land is Constraint to Growth Management", Armidale
• University of Wollongong Faculty of Law, Natural Resources Law and Policy Course Guest Lecturer - Rural and Fringe Metropolitan Planning Issues, Wollongong.
• University of NSW School of Planning and Urban Development, Planning Law and Practice Short Course - Paper "Growth Management and Agricultural Land", Kensington.

1998

• American Planning National Conference Paper Metropolitan Fringe Issues in Australia, Boston, USA.
• Kansas State University, College of Architecture, Planning and Design, Guest Lecturer, US and Australian Planning Law - Comparisons and Differences. Kansas USA
• American Farmland Trust, Agricultural Land Preservation in Australia, Washington DC, USA
• Ontario County Rural Planning Forum, Why Farmland Should be Preserved, Canandaigua, New York, USA
• Western Sydney Planners Network - Planning in the USA
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning Law and Practice Short Course - Paper "Growth Management and Agricultural Land", Kensington.

1999

• Southern Cross University, School of Resource Science and Management, Guest Lecturer, Land Use Planning Subject, Rural Planning, Lismore.
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning Law and Practice Goes Bush - Papers: "Growth Management and Agricultural Land", "Why is Economic Development a Planning Issue?" and "Conducting a Small Town Charrette", Coffs Harbour, Orange and Wagga Wagga.
• University of Canberra Master of City Development, Guest Lecturer, Planning and Development in Large, Rapidly Growing Cities Unit - Land Development at the Urban Fringe, Responsibilities in Statutory Planning and Residential Estate Development, UTS, Sydney.
• Shellharbour City Council Rural Land Study Project - Sustainable Agriculture and Settlement Options Workshops, Shellharbour.
• University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, Guest Lecturer, "Planning on the Fringe of Sydney" and "The Urban Development Program and Infrastructure Planning", UTS, Sydney.
• Royal Australian Planning Institute National Congress - Paper "Is there a future for Australia's Agricultural Land", Darwin
• University of Sydney Planning Research Centre - Paper "Economic Development is a Planning Issue" and "Facilitating Charrettes", Sydney
• Royal Australian Planning Institute NSW State Conference - Paper"From Strategy to Plan - Planning for Rural Land", Batemans Bay
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning Law and Practice Short Course - Papers: "Growth Management and Agricultural Land", "Why is Economic Development a Planning Issue?" and "Conducting a Small Town Charrette"
• University of NSW Guest Lecturer: Ecologically Sustainable Development in Local Government; Economic Development and Facilitating Charrettes

2000

• The Wetland Centre Australia, Wise Use of Wetlands: Ramsar in the Hunter, Paper: Strategic Planning - Meeting the Challenge of Urban, Agricultural Land and Ecological Sustainability, Newcastle.
• Port Stephens Council - Rural Land Use Seminar, Presentation: Experiences in the Management of Rural Land and Rural Land Use Conflict
• American Planning National Conference, Paper: Strategic Planning in Rural Australia, New York City, USA.
• University of Canberra Master of City Development, Guest Lecturer, Planning and Development in Large, Rapidly Growing Cities Unit - Land Development at the Urban Fringe and Residential Estate Development, UTS, Sydney.
• University of Wollongong, Faculty of Applied Science, School of Geography, Guest Lecturer - Planning issues on the Metropolitan Fringe
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning Law and Practice Goes Bush - Papers: "Growth Management and Agricultural Land", "Why is Economic Development a Planning Issue?" and "Conducting a Small Town Charrette", Wagga Wagga and Dubbo.
• NSW Agriculture and South East Horticultural Producers Association Seminar - Benefits of Protective Structures, Presentation: Protective Structures - land use and dealing with Local Councils

2001

• University of Wollongong, Faculty of Geosciences, Guest Lecture on Rural Planning Issues, Wollongong.
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning and Urban Development Program, Guest Lecturer, Year 3 Field Trip to Shoalhaven and Shellharbour
• Royal Australian Planning Institute (NSW) Annual Conference - Paper "Settlement Strategies", Port Macquarie
• University of Canberra Master of City Development, Guest Lecturer, Planning and Development in Large, Rapidly Growing Cities - Land Development at the Urban Fringe, Responsibilities in Statutory Planning and Residential Estate Development, UTS, Sydney.
• Macarthur Agritourism Forum - Presentation on Planning and Sustainable Agriculture, Camden
• Royal Australian Planning Institute National Conference - Paper "Zoning for Sustainable Rural Development", Canberra
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning and Urban Development Program, Guest Lecturer, Economic Development is a Planning Issue and Facilitation, Community Consultation and Conducting a Small Town Charrette, Kensington.

2002

• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning Law and Practice Short Course - Papers: "Growth Management and Agricultural Land", Kensington.
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning and Urban Development Program, Guest Lecturer, Economic Development is a Planning Issue and Facilitation, Community Consultation and Conducting a Small Town Charrette, Kensington.
• Royal Australian Planning Institute / New Zeland Planning Institute National Conference - Paper "Zoning Rural land in Australia", Wellington, New Zealand.
• American Planning National Conference, Presentation Planning on the Fringe of Sydney, Chicago, USA.
• American Planning National Conference, Paper Planning for Wine Based Tourism, Chicago, USA.
• Ontario Professional Planning Institute Presentation Can Development on Sydney's Fringe be Sustainable, Toronto, Canada.
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning and Urban Development Program, Guest Lecturer, Economic Development is a Planning Issue and Facilitation, Community Consultation and Conducting a Small Town Charrette, Kensington.
• Hunter Planners Network, Presentation - Zoning for Rural Land, Cessnock.
• Hornsby Shire Rural Residential Workshop, Presentation on Rural Residential Development, Hornsby
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning and Urban Development Program, Guest Lecturer, Economic Development is a Planning Issue and Facilitation, Community Consultation and Conducting a Small Town Charrette, Kensington.
• University of Canberra Master of City Development, Guest Lecturer, Planning and Development in Large, Rapidly Growing Cities - Land Development at the Urban Fringe, Responsibilities in Statutory Planning and Residential Estate Development, UTS, Sydney.
• NSW Farmwriter's Association Presentation - The Future of Agribusiness in Sydney, Sydney.
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning and Urban Development Program, Guest Lecturer, Year 3 Field Trip to Shoalhaven and Shellharbour

2003

• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning Law and Practice Short Course - Paper: "Growth Management and Agricultural Land" Kensington.
• Planning Institute of Australia, National Conference, Paper: "What About Rural Design?" Adelaide
• Planning Institute of Australia Local Government Planning Network Forum, Presentation on Community Consultation
• Murrumbidgee Murray Albury Planning Group, presentation: "Rural Living - Land Wanted or Land Wasted", Albury
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Rural Planning Law and Practice in Development Control Short Course, Dubbo, Bathurst, Course Director and Presenter
• State of Australian Cities Conference, Paper: "From the Outside Looking In - Planning and Land Management in Sydney's Fringe", Parramatta
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning and Urban Development Program, Guest Lecturer, Year 3 Field Trip to Shoalhaven and Shellharbour

2004

• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Rural Planning Law and Practice in Development Control Short Course, Tamworth, Dubbo, Bathurst, Wagga Wagga and Queanbeyan, Course Director and Presenter
• Planning Institute of Australia, National Conference, Paper: "From the Outside Looking in - Development on the Fringe of Sydney, Hobart
• Planning Institute of Australia Local Government Planning Network Forum, Presentation on Rural Strategies
• American Planning National Conference, Paper: "Managing Growth into the Countryside", Washington DC, USA.
• University of Pennsylvania, Planning Program, Guest Lecture Metropolitan Planning and Sydney's Fringe, Philadelphia
• NSW Agriculture, Hunter Rural Planning Workshop. Presentation: Planning for Agriculture in the Hunter Region, Tocal
• NSW Farmers Association Poultry Committee Conference. Presentation: "From the Outside Looking In - the Complimentary Complexity of Sydney's Rural Land", Sydney
• University of Hawaii, Planning Program. Guest Lecture on Planning in Australia
• Hawaii Congress of Planning Officials American Planning Association Hawaii Chapter Conference. Presentation: "I like it like that - Creative Development Strategies, Character, Identity and Vitality in Our Communities", Honolulu
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning and Urban Development Program, Guest Lecturer, Year 3 Field Trip to Shoalhaven and Shellharbour
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning Law and Practice Short Course - Paper: "Preparing Rural Strategies" Kensington.
• NSW Farmers Association Horticulture Growers. Presentation: "The Complimentary Complexity of Sydney's Rural Land - Options for the Future", Sydney

2005

• NSW Farmers Association. Presentation: "Growing Food and Growing Houses - Preserving Agricultural Land in Sydney", Sydney
• Planning Institute of Australia, National Conference, Paper: "Sea change, the Reality - Impact on Coastal Towns and Villages", Melbourne
• Planning Institute of Australia Young Planners Conference. Panel of Planning Wisdom
• NSW Farmers Association Executive Council Meeting. Presentation: "Planning for Rural Land", West Wyalong
• Planning Institute of Australia Local Government Planning Network Forum, Presentation on Rural Local Environmental Plans, Shoal Bay
• Environment Development and Allied Professionals (EDAP) Conference, Presentation on Economic Development for Rural Towns, Orange, NSW
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Zhengzhou Municipal People's Government, China - Short Course on Australian Government Administration, Sydney
• Planning Institute of Australia, South Australian Division Conference. Presentation on Planning for the Future of Rural Land, Adelaide, South Australia
• Griffith University Urban Research Program. Presentation on Rural Land in Sydney Region, Brisbane, Queensland
• Queensland Rural Planning Seminar. Presentation on Planning for Rural Land, Brisbane, Queensland
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning and Urban Development Program, Guest Lecturer, Year 3 Field Trip to Shoalhaven and Shellharbour
• Planning Institute of Australia, NSW Divisional Conference. Presentation on Planning for Fringe Metropolitan Rural Landscapes, Penrith, NSW
• Planning Institute of Australia, NSW Young Planners Forum. Presentation on The Ageing Future, Penrith NSW
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Rural Strategic Planning Short Course, Tamworth and Wagga Wagga
• FutureShock Conference Debate: Are we approaching sustaiability correctly? Brisbane

2006

• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Rural Strategic Planning Short Course, Tamworth and Wagga Wagga
• Planning Institute of Australia Illawarra Planning Seminar, Presentation: Lifestyle Living Impacts
• American Planning National Conference, Paper: "Moving out of Metro - Comparrisons of Lifestyle Living in USA & Australia", San Antonio, Texas, USA.
• NSW Farmers Association, Central Coast Branch. Presentation: "Planning on the Edge", Gosford
• Planning Institute of Australia, NSW Division Seminar. Presentation: "Using Photography as a Planning Tool", Sydney
• Planning Institute of Australia Young Planner's Forum Planning Perspectives Panel
• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Rural Development Control Short Course, Wagga Wagga

2007

• University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, Rural Development Control Short Course, Tamworth
• British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Food Dialouge on the Edge, Presentation: Perspectives from Sydney and Vancouver
• American Planning National Conference, Paper: "Planning on the Metro Fringe", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Environment Development and Allied Professional Annual Conference, Presentation: Is there a Magic Number - Determining the Rural Dwelling House Minimum

Awards

• 1993 - Royal Australian Planning Institute Commended for Excellence in Planning - Wollondilly Agricultural Lands Study
• 1996 - Royal Australian Planning Institute Commended for Excellence in Planning - Wollondilly Review of Rural Lands
• 2000 - Royal Australian Planning Institute Commended for Excellence in Planning - A View from the Edge, Issues in Rural and Fringe Metropolitan Planning, published in New Planner, Magazine of the Planning Profession in NSW

Publications

• "Rural Planning in Australia" - American Planning Association Small Town and Rural Planning Division News Letter
• "Growing Food and Growing Houses: Preserving Agricultural Land on the Fringes of Cities" in Robertson, A.I and Watts, R.J (Eds). (1999) Preserving Rural Landscapes: Issues and Solutions. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne
• "A View Form the Edge" - Regular Contribution to New Planner, The Magazine of the Planning Profession in NSW. Topics Covered include:

  • Agricultural Land in Sydney
  • Rural Land Use Conflict
  • Environmental Issues
  • Small Town Charrette Workshop
  • Catchment Planning
  • Legislative Impact
  • Strategy Planning
  • Dateline USA - Small Towns and Countryside
  • Growth Management Strategies for Small Towns
  • Noxious Weeds
  • What is Sustainable Agriculture?
  • Horizontal and Vertical Growth Management
  • What is Rural Land?
  • Lot Sizes for Agriculture
  • The importance of Biodiversity Conservation
  • Planning in the USA - the good, the bad and the ugly
  • Sustainability Indicators
  • Settlement Strategies
  • Incentives as a Planning Tool
  • Rural Residential Development - Definition
  • Rural Residential Development - Impacts
  • Lifestyle Living
  • Bushfire Risk
  • Smart Growth or Smart Living?
  • What about Rural Design?
  • Sustainable Growth Management in Sydney - The Issues
  • Sustainable Growth Management for Sydney's Fringe
  • Rural Tourism
  • Rural Subdivision Minimums
  • Rural LEPs
  • Rural Fringe
  • Sydney's Rural Land
  • Settlement Hierarchies
  • Rural Residential Sprawl