Julius acts for developers, resources companies, local governments and landowners across Western Australia on planning approvals, environmental regulation, land acquisition and local government law, with over 20 years leading practices in these areas.

Biography

Julius is a Partner in the National Property and Development team, based in Perth. He acts for property developers, resources and mining companies, waste and recycling operators, retailers, tourism operators and local governments across Western Australia on planning, environmental and local government matters.

His practice spans planning and subdivision approvals, environmental permits, Works Approvals and Licences, land acquisition and compensation, heritage, contaminated sites and regulatory compliance. He conducts proceedings in the State Administrative Tribunal and appeals to the Supreme Court of Western Australia across all of these areas. A significant component of his practice is local government law, advising and representing local governments across Western Australia on major land transactions, private-sector partnerships, public works, governance, tendering and procurement, codes of conduct and statutory administration.

Julius acts on matters with significant regulatory, commercial and reputational consequences: major infrastructure land acquisitions, controversial environmental approvals for large-scale industrial operations near metropolitan areas, Supreme Court judicial review proceedings and the structuring of major land transactions for local government bodies operating under strict statutory frameworks. His matters regularly involve multiple regulators, competing public and private interests, and approval processes that determine whether significant projects proceed.

Julius brings a perspective that is rare in Western Australian planning law: over two decades of acting for both local governments and the private sector. That dual experience informs his understanding of how decision-makers exercise discretion, where regulatory risk arises and how to structure engagement strategies that produce defined outcomes for both sides of complex planning and land use matters.

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Julius' experience

Cleanaway, planning and environmental approvals, Western Australia

Advising Cleanaway on planning and environmental approvals across the majority of its Western Australian operations, including co-ordinating approvals for the expansion of significant landfill and waste processing operations in Dardanup.

Major waste operator, landfill approval, Perth metropolitan area

Acting to obtain an extension of development approval and managing environmental approval processes for a highly contested landfill proposal in close proximity to the Perth metropolitan area, navigating fundamental changes to the planning framework since the original approval was granted.

Major infrastructure land acquisitions, Perth-Bunbury Highway, Great Eastern Highway, Northlink WA and Bunbury Outer Ring Road

Advising both landowners and acquiring authorities in compulsory acquisition proceedings connected to major Western Australian public infrastructure projects, including negotiation and settlement of numerous compensation claims.

Western Australian local governments, strategic landholdings

Advising the City of Fremantle, City of South Perth, City of Canning and the Town of Victoria Park on the redevelopment of strategic landholdings, ensuring compliance with statutory provisions governing major land transactions under the Local Government Act.

Shire of Peppermint Grove, heritage listing, Supreme Court of Western Australia

Representing the Shire in judicial review proceedings challenging the heritage listing of a significant residential property on the Swan River foreshore, involving complex questions of procedure and the exercise of statutory power in heritage matters.

Not-for-Profit Aged care providers, rating exemptions

Advising multiple not-for-profit aged care providers on exemptions from rating by local governments, including representation before the State Administrative Tribunal and the Supreme Court on whether financing models used in aged-care services precluded those services from being regarded as charitable in nature.

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