Tract brings extensive experience across Australia’s industrial and resource management sectors, delivering strategic planning and design solutions that meet the unique demands of these environments.
We develop clear, effective strategies to navigate complex approvals processes, craft innovative and practical master plans, and design landscapes tailored to the operational needs of industrial sites.
Our interdisciplinary team develops a tailored approach to ensure outcomes are positive, practical and considered.
We recognise the unique complexity of projects in the sector and we are fully versed in navigating the challenges and the often competing issues that arise.
We provide expert planning services that support the delivery of efficient, compliant, and future-ready logistics and warehousing developments.
Our team assesses site constraints, zoning requirements, and transport connectivity to guide land use decisions and optimise layouts for freight movement, access, and operational flow.
We help clients navigate approvals and unlock value through strategic site planning and regulatory alignment.
We apply a whole of life cycle approach to resource recovery projects.
We remain attuned to regulatory changes and sector trends across our national team. Victoria’s policy settings have been recalibrated to encourage the aggregation of waste and resource recovery facilities with like industries so that they leverage off synergies and be planned for in a strategic manner. Tract’s work in the emerging waste-to-energy space and rehabilitation of completed landfills is at the forefront of the sector.
The master plans we prepare for business parks and industrial estates establish tailored design principles to establish an individual sense of place and ensure the functionality, amenity and desirability of these import employment precincts.
We advocate for our extractive industry clients to achieve timely approvals and upon commencement. We also work strategically to identify quarry redevelopment opportunities for various purposes including continued use or for urban development.
Our landscape team delivers excellent visual mitigation landscaping that integrates with the landscape concept for the ultimate rehabilitation at the end of the quarry’s life.
Our skilled Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment team services a range of projects and supports decision-making for clients and responsible authorities.
The advice they provide ensures the visual impacts of large-scale developments are understood and, where necessary, tailored mitigation measures are developed to inform final siting, landscape and built form outcomes.
We understand that projects in this sector can play an important role in achieving climate-positive benefits. For our waste management and resource recovery projects, this can be achieved through re-use, recycling, waste-to-energy opportunities and forward-thinking solutions to ensure sites or facilities are better placed to have a positive impact on the environment and wider community.
There are opportunities to embed sustainability practices in a range of industrial developments, including data centres and large-format warehousing and logistics buildings. We have successfully introduced biodiversity initiatives into rehabilitated landfill projects whilst ensuring the landfill cap is not compromised.
Our proficiency with the policy settings within the sector at national, state and local levels provides Tract with unique insight into achieving sound strategic planning outcomes.
We work collaboratively with stakeholders and decisionmakers to identify opportunities and challenges relevant to each project or context.
We provide strategic planning analysis to inform submissions or proposals on behalf of our developer clients and we provide structure plans and industrial land use strategies for local government clients.
Data centre infrastructure will be critical to support the rapidly increasing computing power requirements of new technologies, including AI.
Our team brings our extensive experience in industrial and urban contexts to our data centre clients and project teams to successfully deliver high-performance facilities that respond to the evolving needs of cities in a rapidly changing global landscape.
We understand the nuanced considerations and specific needs of data centre projects, and the pace of change enabled by technological advancement.
Our planning, urban design and landscape teams are equipped to assist from due diligence, strategy, design and planning approval, to detailed design and construction phases – providing a seamless service through the whole project lifecycle.
We have cross-disciplinary skills in finding innovative solutions for completed landfills and exhausted quarries, and niche expertise in creating new open spaces from rehabilitated landfills.
We specialize in securing planning approvals for industrial and extractive industry clients, offering expert guidance through complex regulatory frameworks.
Our team understands the intersection of planning processes and key legislation—including the Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Act, Environment Protection Act, and associated statutory requirements such as Development and Operations Licenses. This insight allows us to identify approval triggers early and recommend strategies to streamline and combine processes where possible.
With deep expertise in policy and a client-focused approach, we work collaboratively with stakeholders, technical specialists, and other consultants to ensure approvals are delivered efficiently and with practical, workable conditions.
We maintain strong working relationships with key state and federal agencies, including:
Our goal is to make the approvals process clear, coordinated, and outcome-driven—so our clients can focus on delivering their projects with confidence.
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We pay our respects to the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia, their Elders and ancestors, recognising their rich heritage and enduring connection to Country and acknowledging the ongoing sovereignty of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nations.
We recognise the profound connection to land, waters, sky and community of the First Nations peoples, with continuing cultures that are among the oldest in human history. We recognise that they are skilled land shapers and place makers, with a deep and rich knowledge of this land which they have cared for, protected and balanced for millennia.
