Peter heads the Australian Environment, Planning and Communities team. He advises major corporate and government clients on large and complex matters that demand a creative, strategic and commercial approach to environment, planning and strategic property issues.Peter assists clients with obtaining all planning, environment and regulatory approvals for major energy, resource, infrastructure and urban development projects by providing strategic and integrated land access and approvals advice. He also provides advice and representation in relation to the remediation and development of contaminated land and has advised on some of Australia’s most complex and high profile contaminated sites. Peter also advises clients on planning law, pollution, heritage, and biodiversity issues as well as environmental incident response, crisis management, regulatory investigations and defence of environmental prosecutions. He conducts specialist litigation including environment and planning, real estate, compulsory acquisition and valuation disputes. Peter has been consistently recognised as one of Australia’s leading environment and planning lawyers by Best Lawyers (2008 – 2015), Global Counsel 3000, Who’s Who Legal and Chambers Global. Peter has also been endorsed by PLC Which Lawyer, Who’s Who Legal and Asia Pacific Legal 500.He is ranked as a ‘Band 1’ lawyer in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2015 as a lawyer who is highly regarded for his wide-ranging expertise, which embraces environmental impact assessments, land contamination matters and environment and planning-related dispute resolution and who “brings a commercial focus and thinks outside the box."