Garth Moore Email & Phone Number

Garth is a Principal Planner with the Ipswich City Council’s Strategic Planning Branch. During 31 years of practice as a professional planner, both as a consultant planner in the private sector and town planner with local government, he has been involved in a vast array of development applications. These have ranged in complexity from relatively straight forward reconfigurations to highly complex application for shopping centres and tourism resorts. Garth has been actively engaged in the development of several planning schemes under the Local Government Act, IPA and SPA. He will be assisting the production of our new scheme under the Planning for Queensland’s Development Act. Garth has a BSc in Australian Environmental Studies, a Grad Dip in Urban and Regional Planning and Grad Dip in Urban Design. He is a corporate member of PIA, was inducted as a Fellow of PIA in 2011 and accepted as a Registered Planner in 2016.Garth has been actively engaged in the development of several planning schemes under the Local Government Act, IPA and SPA. He will be assisting the production of the new Ipswich scheme under Queensland’s new the Planning Act. Garth brings:- a passion for developing well-articulated and responsive planning scheme documents;- over 31 years of implementing planning and process improvements to local government planning instruments;- planning, urban design, cultural heritage and environmental management skills;- a robust project management methodology that is underpinned by a collaborative approach promoting stakeholder engagement and ownership of planning scheme documents from the onset; and - a dedicated commitment to and passion to deliver robust and responsive planning documents that are easy to use and understand, are compliant with existing and evolving planning legislation.