HWL Ebsworth will add former DLA Piper partner Mark Bartley to its Melbourne planning, environment and government group on August 22.
Bartley is an accredited specialist in environmental, planning and local government law and his background includes acting for Commonwealth and state government departments, statutory authorities, local councils and private sector developers.
Bartley has been involved in all aspects of property development, and regularly appears before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Planning Panels and Advisory Committees. He also offers significant water related expertise including advising on major project approvals, legal compliance programs, corporate governance, catchment management and other environmental policies, waste water re-use schemes, water trading and legislative and policy changes.
Bartley is the chair of the Property Council Planning and Governance Committee and previously served as a director of the Urban Development Institute of Australia (1998 to 2008) as well as being a board member of the Victorian Planning and Environmental Law Association (1995 to 2004).
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