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Introduction
The Sullivans Cove Design Panel is an expert advisory body whose members have specialist skills in architecture, urban design, planning and heritage.
The Design Panel provides advice to the Sullivans Cove Waterfront Authority aimed at attaining the best possible urban design and planning outcomes for Sullivans Cove.
The Design Panel’s advice to the Authority is broad ranging. It includes input into strategic planning projects, planning and urban design policies, amendments to the Authority’s planning instruments and critiques of proposed developments in Sullivans Cove.
The Design Panel indicates where further investigation is required, suggests alternative options and can be explicit about preferred solutions.
While decision making in Sullivans Cove is covered by a planning scheme and urban design framework, the Design Panel may go beyond the scope of these documents with the aim of achieving better outcomes.
Advice for Developers
The Design Panel meets with prospective developers when a conceptual proposal has been prepared or when a designer or architect has been appointed.
There may be a need to meet more than once, particularly if the project is complex or challenging.
Early discussion ahead of making a permit application is encouraged, particularly for complex developments.
The Design Panel meets approximately every five to six weeks, and a time can be arranged by contacting the Authority’s Senior Development Planner.
Developers are advised not to contact members of the Design Panel individually. It is important that the Design Panel considers and conveys its advice as a group. This protocol gives confidence in the probity of the Design Panel and ensures that the Design Panel’s workload is not in conflict with individual members’ obligations outside their Design Panel roles.
Current Membership of the Sullivans Cove Design Panel
The Design Panel consists of:
Robert McGauran
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Rob is a director of McGauran Giannini Soon Pty Ltd, a Melbourne-based award winning practice that has a wide portfolio of both private and government sector projects. These include low cost housing, housing, mixed use, urban renewal, retail and institutional projects to which it brings architectural, urban design and master planning expertise.
Recently he has directed the Chapel Street Master Plan and the redevelopment of the heritage-listed Pentridge Prison site in Victoria, into a new urban village to house 5,000 people.
Rob has held a number of government advisory roles and is currently a member of the Priority Development Panel for the Victorian Minister for Planning. He is also a Board member of Melbourne Affordable Housing.
He has been a prominent advocate for planning policy and urban design through his professional affiliations at a State and National level. In 1999 he was made a life fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in recognition of his contribution to the profession. |
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Nigel Bertram
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Nigel is a Director of NMBW Architecture Studio, in Melbourne, Victoria, and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University.
Nigel has co-authored four books and contributed articles and chapters for many publications on contemporary architecture and urbanism. His practice NMBW has won numerous awards including the Australian Institute of Architects’ (Vic Chapter) 2008 Regional Prize, the Melbourne Prize for significant contribution to the public realm, and a number of residential awards including an Architecture Award for the recently published Elwood House.
Nigel was the Joint Creative Director of the Australian Pavilion at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale. |
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Sandra Hogue
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Sandra is a highly respected town planner with extensive strategic planning experience in Australia and the UK.
Sandra has worked for all levels of government and as a consultant for over 20 years, and is currently a commissioner for the Resource Planning and Development Commission and Environmental Programs Manager for Hydro Tasmania.
She is a former member of the Tasmanian Heritage Council and has project managed many substantial heritage projects. |
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Leigh Woolley
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Leigh is a prominent Tasmanian architect and urban design consultant who has worked extensively for private clients and all levels of government within Australia, the UK and southeast Asia.
He has received numerous professional design and planning awards in over twenty years of practice, including a Churchill Fellowship where he compared urban design policy in cities with dominant topographies.
A recognized photographer he has written and lectured extensively on architecture and urban design, specifically from a Tasmanian perspective. |
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Immediate Past Members
Prof Peter Elliott completed a three-year term as Head of the Sullivans Cove Design Panel in May 2008. The Sullivans Cove Waterfront Authority would like to thank Peter for his outstanding efforts in this role.
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