About Rebecca Pleming
Rebecca specialises in providing strategic advice across all facets of environment and planning law and at all stages of a project lifecycle to facilitate the approval and development of infrastructure, energy, retail, commercial, residential and healthcare projects.
Her experience extends to the conduct of planning appeals, project challenges, civil enforcement proceedings, criminal prosecutions and land acquisition compensation claims in the NSW Land and Environment Court, NSW Court of Appeal and NSW and ACT Tribunals.
Rebecca regularly provides advice to clients in relation to:
- planning approval pathways to facilitate development of land, including strategic advice on the preparation of development applications.
- the negotiation of voluntary planning agreements with state and local government on behalf of developer clients.
- the management of contaminated land, waste and pollution, including environmental licensing requirements.
Rebecca's expertise includes advising on biosecurity and the management of biosecurity incidents, as well as compliance with planning and environmental laws, including during investigations or enforcement action by a regulatory authority. For the last five years, she has been ranked in the Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide in Environment & Planning Law.
Rebecca's relevant experience includes advising:
- Snowy Hydro Ltd: on the planning and environmental approvals required to construct and operate the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro expansion, a declared critical state significant infrastructure project
- Qube Holdings Ltd: in relation to all planning approval and planning compliance aspects of its development of Australia's largest freight infrastructure, being Qube's intermodal development at Moorebank
- Coles Group Property Developments Ltd: in relation to strategic planning and permitting requirements for numerous mixed-use (retail, commercial and residential) development projects in NSW and ACT
- Anglican Community Services: regarding the planning approval requirements and available pathways for development of seniors housing, affordable housing and mixed-use developments within NSW. Also acting for Anglicare in Class 1 planning appeals in the NSW Land and Environment Court to successfully obtain development consent for various development projects
- Bunnings Properties: in numerous planning appeals in the NSW Land and Environment Court to successfully obtain development consent for various development projects
- McDonald's Australia Limited: in numerous planning appeals in the Land and Environment Court to successfully obtain development consent for various development projects.