Larchus Information

Larchus is a Brisbane-based firm providing expert advice on landscape values and vegetation management across Queensland and northern New South Wales. Services include comprehensive reporting on visual amenity, open space planning, environment management, urban design and landscape design. Integrating these disciplines allows us to explore opportunities and design solutions during the early stages of the development application and assessment process to resolve key design issues and avoid protracted approval processes. Nathan Powell is the principal at Larchus and has been consulting to the development industry and authorities since 1998. He has particular skills in landscape and vegetation management, visual assessment and open space planning. He also works as an expert witness in the Planning and Environment Court and Land Court and has assisted developers and Local Government Authorities throughout Queensland and Northern New South Wales with broad scale landscape assessments and in developing a range of planning and assessment tools.