The planners you'll be dealing with.
We started whatcani.build after watching too many good projects come unstuck early — not because the site was wrong, but because the planning advice turned up too late. Next year we tick over ten years of getting it in first.
Istvan runs the planning and feasibility side of the practice. He came up through architecture and urban design before moving into planning strategy, and built whatcani.build on a simple conviction: good planning advice should land before the money's spent, not after. He works directly with developers and builders on zoning strategy, feasibility, and the clause 4.6 and policy arguments that get good projects through council.
Nathan is the design-literate half of the practice — he reads plans, sections and massing fluently enough to pick up planning issues while a scheme can still be changed cheaply. He leads the pre-design and approvals work, from envelope testing through to DA and CDC lodgement, turning planning controls into briefs architects can design to and planning reports councils can approve.