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Ever wondered how to definitively prove your development respects a cherished landscape, or precisely quantify its impact on sunlight for surrounding homes? Are you seeking the clarity to navigate complex planning panels, or the robust evidence needed to confidently present your case in a tribunal? Explore Orbit Solutions' unparalleled expertise.
Orbit Solutions delivers independent, expert visual and environmental assessments for all development sectors across Australia's diverse landscapes. We've achieved successful outcomes for residential, commercial, and institutional projects, energy and infrastructure developments, and proposals within both urban and sensitive natural environments, including World Heritage areas.
“The compelling evidence lies in the consistent emphasis by legal professionals and Authorities on the necessity and impact of high-quality expert evidence in achieving favourable planning outcomes. Case law demonstrates that visual amenity (including bulk, character,overshadowing) is a frequent and decisive factor.
If a proposal's visual impacts are not adequately addressed and demonstrated through expert evidence,it can lead to refusal, regardless of other merits. Conversely, where visual impacts are thoroughly analysed and mitigated through expert assessments,it strengthens your case.”
Orbit Solutions is a leading Australian based consultancy providing robust Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIA). We specialise in evaluating how development interacts with landscapes and visual amenity, offering essential insights for sound planning and legal outcomes. Our unparalleled expertise in visual amenity evidence is built on a rigorous, empirically driven methodology, informed by cutting-edge 3D data and big data modelling. With over two decades of experience, we navigate complex planning and environmental cases, ensuring clarity and authority for projects from local developments to national infrastructure, always synthesising leading international processes with meaningful contributions.
Orbit Solutions is Australia's leading provider of robust and defensible Visual Amenity Evidence for complex planning and legal contexts. Our deep expertise, rigorously applied methodology, and mastery of 3D and big data modelling ensure our visual evidence is both compelling and legally sound. We empower developers, lawyers, and planners with clear, authoritative insights, synthesising international best practices for successful outcomes across all project stages.
From the subtle nuances of visual harmony to the significant impacts of development on what we see and experience, visual amenity is a cornerstone of effective planning and environmental law. Providing clear, accurate, and defensible visual evidence is paramount for navigating the complexities of development proposals and legal proceedings. Providing robust and defensible visual evidence for planning and legal contexts.
Orbit Solutions is the recognised leader in providing robust Visual Amenity Evidence in Australia, drawing upon our deep expertise and rigorous, empirically framed approach. Our long-standing experience in major planning and environment cases, combined with our mastery of 3D data and big data modelling, ensures that the visual evidence we provide is both compelling and legally sound. Orbit synthesises leading international best practices to deliver meaningful and authoritative insights, empowering developers, lawyers, and planners with the clarity needed to navigate intricate visual amenity considerations.
Orbit Solutions delivers precise and reliable Shadow and Solar Impact studies, providing critical insights into how proposed developments affect sunlight access, solar energy potential, and surrounding amenity. Our advanced 3D modelling and sophisticated simulation software enable accurate prediction and visualisation of shadow patterns and solar access, crucial for planning approvals, design optimisation, and environmental assessment. We provide objective, defensible evidence based on rigorous methodologies and expert interpretation for clear decision-making.
Understanding how a proposed development interacts with sunlight and casts shadows is fundamental to responsible and sustainable design and planning. Accurate Shadow and Solar Impact analyses provide critical insights into potential effects on daylight access, solar energy potential, and the amenity of surrounding spaces.
Orbit Solutions delivers precise and reliable Shadow and Solar Impact studies in Australia, leveraging our advanced 3D modelling capabilities, sophisticated simulation software, and a commitment to providing clear, evidence-based assessments.
Are you feeling blocked by view sharing issues because of a planning development?
Orbit Solutions, with its leading expertise and experience, offers the insights you need. We’re seasoned in navigating complex planning landscapes, ensuring your project achieves successful visual amenity advice and compelling data driven arguments to support your case.
Our service provides comprehensive View Impact Evaluation. We meticulously identify the visual character and scenic features of the views, understanding the quantitative aspects and their quality – whether they’re iconic, panoramic, or feature oriented. This involves assessing the existing visual landscape from various points, especially from properties and public spaces that might be impacted, or prioritising views from primary living areas or decks.
Our core View Impact Evaluation service is meticulous. We identify existing view character (iconic, bay, etc.), prioritising primary living areas. We then assess impact extent, using 3D modelling to quantify view loss and considering standing vs. sitting views and cumulative impacts.
We evaluate your development's reasonableness, checking planning compliance and design efforts to minimise impact. We balance development rights with community visual amenity. If needed, we propose mitigation like adjusting height or materials. Our focus is successfully delivering projects that respect Port Melbourne's unique visual amenity, ensuring a balanced outcome.
UNLOCK BESPOKE VISUALISATION SOLUTIONS
Navigating the complexities of development requires a deep understanding of visual amenity and landscape impact. At Orbit Solutions, we offer a comprehensive suite of expert services – from meticulous Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments and compelling Visual Amenity Evidence to precise Shadow and Solar Studies, impactful Animations, insightful GIS & Mapping, realistic Simulated Views, thorough Landscape Character Assessments, robust Expert Report Authoring, clear Statements of Evidence, and detailed View Impact Assessments.
Beyond these core offerings, we understand that each project presents unique challenges. That's why we invite you to a confidential consultation to explore how we can tailor bespoke solutions to your specific needs. Whether you require specialised analyses like helicopter flight path analysis or other niche assessments, our experienced team is ready to apply our rigorous methodology and cutting-edge tools to deliver the clarity and authority you need for successful planning and legal outcomes.
Let's discuss your project in confidence. Contact us today to explore bespoke solutions tailored to your unique requirements.
Solutions
Struggling to get stakeholder buy-in or navigate complex approvals?
Abstract plans often create more questions than answers. Our Visualisation Solutions cut through the confusion. We transform your complex data into clear, compelling visuals, directly tackling your biggest communication hurdles. Get the clarity and evidence you need to secure approvals, faster.
Effectively communicating and comprehending the visual implications of proposed developments is paramount. For clients, planners, lawyers, and development managers facing hurdles while navigating complex approval processes, our suite of Visualisation Solutions directly tackles these challenges.
“Ready to transform complex plans into compelling clarity?
Orbit Solutions make your project's intricate spatial relationships and impacts instantly apparent, offering precision traditional methods can't match. From photorealism to dynamic simulations, we ensure accurate and persuasive representation at every stage – from community consultations to tribunal cross-examinations.
Leverage our industry-recognised expertise, proven reliable in challenging cases like the seminal Austcorp v Monash City Council, and awarded Fellowship by the Victorian Planning and Environmental Law Association. Discover the certainty that comes with partnering with Australia's leading Visual Amenity Experts. Let's make your vision undeniable!”
What's the biggest headache for planners/lawyers visualising a development? How does a precise photomontage transform a court case? When is it most crucial?
Experience unparalleled accuracy with AlignView, Australia's trusted standard. Our Gold Standard photomontages integrate rigorous methodologies, precise 3D data, and expert knowledge, ensuring your visual evidence is highly defensible for planning and legal presentations.
We go beyond simple renderings, focusing on true-to-life visualisation that accurately portrays scale, form, and materiality within professional photography. This delivers clear, impactful visual evidence for stakeholders and decision-makers. AlignView photomontages are invaluable for: Planning Applications, Stakeholder Consultation, Legal Proceedings, and Development Management.
Orbit Solutions' AlignView Photomontage provides unambiguous visual clarity. Leading up to and since the foundational Austcorp Vs Monash VCAT decision in 2006, our reputation for providing the most accurate, reliable photomontages is built on deep expertise, rigorous methodology, advanced technology, and a proven track record in major planning and environment cases.
What planning or legal challenges do spatial data and mapping help overcome? What vital insights can GIS reveal for your case? When is this expertise most crucial?
Orbit delivers Reliable Geospatial Intelligence for planning and development. From site analysis to visual impact modelling, our GIS expertise provides a clear, data-driven understanding of your project's spatial context.
Our GIS & Mapping Solutions offers:
Unwavering Precision: Precision Mapping You Can Trust. We ensure accuracy and reliability for critical analysis and presentations.
Empowering Decisions: Gain vital insights for site analysis, visual impact, environmental studies, planning applications, legal contexts, and stakeholder engagement.
Seamless Integration: Our spatial analysis deeply integrates with visual amenity and LVIA, providing a holistic, defensible understanding of your project's environmental interaction.
Leading Expertise & Technology: Backed by experienced geospatial analysts and cutting-edge software, we deliver insightful, reliable mapping solutions, ensuring you stay at the forefront.
This empowers clear, confident project outcomes.
Beyond static images, what deeper understanding do simulated views offer? What questions can they answer that plans or photos can't? When are they most impactful for communicating design or impact?
Orbit’s reliable Simulated Views provide powerful, trustworthy representation when photographic context isn't required. Gain a clear, accurate understanding of your project's visual outcome with our meticulously crafted simulated views, the benchmark for realism in Australia.
Benefits include: Unmatched Accuracy in Visual Simulation, Powerful Visual Communication for Planning Approvals, Stakeholder Engagement, and Marketing/Sales, Rigorous Techniques like Precise 3D Modelling, Accurate Environmental Data, and Expert Visualisation.
Leveraging our expertise in 3D data and visual amenity, Orbit delivers compelling and technically accurate simulated views.
Why can animation tell a story that static visuals cannot? What 'story' can it tell in a presentation? When is it a game-changer for explaining a concept or impact?
Communicate your proposal with unparalleled clarity using Orbit's precisely crafted animations, setting Australia's standard for accuracy. From flythroughs to impactful sequences, our reliable animations provide a dynamic, understandable project representation. Leverage motion to showcase your vision and engage audiences effectively.
Orbit Solutions Animations offer:
Precision in Motion: Animations You Can Trust. We meticulously integrate 3D models, environmental data, and movement for trustworthy, dynamic visualisations of development phasing or shadow studies.
Dynamic Communication for Powerful Engagement: Animations effectively communicate for planning presentations, stakeholder consultation, legal proceedings, and marketing.
Expertise and Technology Working in Harmony: Produced by a skilled team using advanced 3D modelling and intelligent software.
Recognised for accuracy, Orbit's animations are grounded in precise data, integrated visual amenity understanding, technical mastery, and a proven track record for significant projects.
What key concerns do planners and communities have regarding shadow impacts? How do shadow and solar studies provide for decision-making? When is a thorough analysis most important?
Gain a clear, accurate understanding of your development's response to sunlight and shadows with our meticulously conducted studies—Australia's trusted standard for expert, evidence-based overshadowing amenity impact analysis. Our reliable quantitative and qualitative studies provide essential, defensible data for crucial assessments. Leverage our unparalleled expertise to analyse and visualise solar access and shadow patterns with precision.
Orbit Solutions Shadow and Solar Studies offer:
Precision in Sunlight and Shadow Analysis. Our studies are built on precise 3D models, accurate geographic/temporal data, and rigorous calculation methodologies, ensuring dependable results.
Essential Insights for Responsible Development. Crucial for planning approvals, environmental impact assessments, design optimisation, and neighbourly considerations.
Clear and Understandable Visualisation. Findings are presented through dynamic animations, clear mapping, quantitative data, and objective qualitative analysis.
Orbit Solutions is known for Australia's most accurate and reliable shadow and solar studies due to our expertise in Spatial Analysis, ensuring rigorous methodologies and defensible outputs for integrated understanding.
What are the biggest challenges in presenting complex technical information clearly in a report? Why is a Statement of Evidence truly compelling for a tribunal? When is expert report authoring most critical?
Rely on Orbit Solutions for meticulously authored expert reports in visual amenity, landscape & visual impact, and related fields—known for their accuracy and defensibility across Australia. Our reports provide clear, evidence-based analysis, supporting your planning applications, legal arguments, and stakeholder communications with confidence. Benefit from our years of experience and deep understanding, translated into comprehensive, reliable documentation and compelling visuals.
Orbit Solutions provides:
Rigorous Analysis, Reliable Conclusions. Our expert reports are founded on meticulous research and robust methodologies, leveraging empirical evidence and cutting-edge data to ensure findings withstand scrutiny.
Expertise Across Visual Amenity and Landscape Impact. We offer specialised report authoring in Visual Amenity Evidence, LVIA, Shadow and Solar Impact (visual amenity related), and unique 3D/GIS data integration challenges.
Clear Communication of Complex Issues. Our reports effectively convey technical information to planners, lawyers, and stakeholders, prioritising logical structure, plain language, and compelling visual evidence for clear understanding.
Our focused expertise ensures insightful, comprehensive, and relevant reports. Orbit Solutions has earned a reputation for Australia's most accurate, reliable expert reports due to our: Deep Subject Matter Expertise. Research-Driven Approach, Commitment to Defensibility, and Proven Track Record.
About us
INTEGRITY: We operate with honesty, transparency, and strong ethical principles, building trust in all our relationships.
INQUIRY: We foster a culture of questioning and exploration, always seeking deeper understanding and innovative solutions through insightful inquiry.
INDEPENDENCE: Our work stands on its own merit, meticulously crafted and thoroughly supported, making our conclusions and visualisation solutions invulnerable.
Acknowledgement of Country
Orbit Solutions respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners and custodians of the many Lands across Australia on which we operate.We recognise their deep and continuing connection to Country, its landscapes,waters, and communities, nurturing these places for millennia. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
WHO: the pre-eminent Australian Visual Amenity Consultancy
Orbit Solutions, established in 1999, stands as the pre-eminent Australian VisualAmenity Consultancy under the stewardship of Director, Christopher Goss, a distinguished Practising Architect and a recognised Expert in Visual Amenity. Our experienced team of specialists brings to the fore a deep and broadexpertise spanning Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment, the provision of compelling Visual Amenity Evidence, Overshadowing Analysis, and other intricatetechnical domains. We excel in the nuanced art of visually managing and presenting complex big data, offering clarity where it is most needed.
WHAT: We furnish robust expert visual amenity solutions for proposed developments across the spectrum of Planning Panels, Tribunals, and Courts.
We furnish robust expert visual amenity solutions for proposed developments across the spectrum of Planning Panels, Tribunals, and Courts. Beyond this, we actively contribute to pivotal discussions and forums, engaging with stakeholders and authorities during community consultations, panel discussions,and industry conferences. Our experience is comprehensive, encompassing the full gamut of project typologies, from expansive energy infrastructure to finely considered built form and landscape proposals, be they situated in bustling urban centres, tranquil rural landscapes, or sensitive natural environments.
WHY: Orbit Solutions has consistently held its position at the apex of visual amenity services through an unwavering commitment to meticulous attention to detail, a rigorously applied methodology, and an empirical, evidence-based approach that not only draws upon but actively informs best practice within the field.
Our consistent delivery of exceptional outcomes is rooted in the synthesis of leading international and national guidelines, ensuring a foundation that is both research-driven and practically applicable. This provides our clients with the certainty that both objective and subjective frameworks have been diligently employed, allowing Orbit’s qualitative and quantitative analyses to establish assessments that are not only fair and defensible but also rigorously independent.
WHERE: Based in Australia, our reach extends nationally and internationally.
Our extensive track record across all Australian States and Territories has cultivated a profound understanding of the diverse tapestry of policies and statutory requirements that shape the development landscape.
WHEN: When visualisation expertise becomes paramount – be it at the Feasibility, Design, Approval, Appeal, or Lifecycle stage – Orbit Solutions stands ready to assist.
We encourage you to reach out for a confidential, no-obligation initial consultation that is both friendly and informative, allowing us to discuss thespecific requirements of your project. For matters of a legal nature, we have found that direct briefing of Orbit’s Expert Witness by the instructing solicitor is the most efficacious pathway, preserving legal privilege andensuring a timely and effective engagement.
HOW: Orbit Solutions offers more than just visual analysis; we provide profound insight cultivated through decades navigating diverse projects and intricate legal terrains.
Our scrupulous approach and dedication to evidence-based methodologies ensure that our expert solutions deliver clarity with the robust support essential for navigating complex and challenging systems.
CONTACT
PHONE +61 3 9690 4418
EMAIL vic@orbitsolutions.com.au
