Creedence Planning is a town planning / urban planning consultancy first established in 2003 and based in Newcastle, NSW.

We're here to help you find your way through the development application approval process and make it work for you. With a strong background in local government and private consultancies in the NSW planning system, we have the technical expertise, versatility and experience to handle all manner of development projects, large and small. We are a small consultancy with low overheads focussed on providing a personal level of service that is tailored to the individual needs of our clients at a competitive cost.

We can help you with:

• obtaining your development approval;
• negotiation and resolving consent authority issues with your DA;
• managing the DA process;
• providing you with high quality planning reports (such as a Statement of Environmental Effects or Clause 4.6 Variation Request) to support your DA;
• preparing an objection to a DA, or simply advising you to assist you preparing your own objection; 
• providing advice on what development/land use you can and can't carry out on your land and relevant planning issues.
• expert town planning witness representation in the Land and Environment Court.

We also provide the following services for councils/consent authorities:

• expert independent development application assessment;
• expert town planning witness representation in the Land and Environment Court;
• policy formulation and review.