Find the legal pathway before the consultation.
Quick, plain-English tools that help identify the legal pathway before a consultation. Free to use, private until you choose to submit, and built around how these matters operate in New South Wales.
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If you are not sure which tool fits your matter, begin with the guided intake.
Not sure which pathway your matter needs?
A guided, plain-English intake across planning, environment, compulsory acquisition and local government matters. It organises the information you provide into a structured briefing for your review.
Plain-English briefing
Start the Matter NavigatorGo straight to your situation
If you already know what you are dealing with, each of these covers one kind of matter.
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Received a notice, order, direction or refusal?
Search across council, planning, EPA, NRAR, water, roads, acquisition, biodiversity, heritage and Commonwealth environmental instruments, then continue into the right pathway.
Search + matching pathway
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Is your land being acquired or affected?
Organises information about an acquisition, access request or project impact, and prepares an enquiry for preliminary review.
Structured enquiry
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Buying or selling land or a business?
Enter a small number of transaction details to generate a checklist of the planning and environmental issues worth investigating before you buy or sell.
Indicative checklist
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Each tool organises what you tell it and points to what is worth investigating next. None of them determines your rights, entitlements, deadlines, prospects, the correct legal pathway or the risks that apply to your matter, and each tool sets out its own limits before you begin.
This page is general information only and is not legal advice. It may not be current, and how the law applies depends on the specific facts. For advice on your situation, contact Stone & Pillar Legal.
Where to start
Request preliminary review
If you choose to send a tool briefing, it may be used for conflict and scope screening. Any legal advice would follow written acceptance of an engagement.
No charge · Not legal advice
A preliminary call is a short conversation to check whether we can help, at no charge, and not legal advice. Please don't send confidential or time-sensitive material until we confirm in writing that we can act.