LiquorPlan Information

LiquorPlan was established in 2013 by Matt Gorman, Consultant Town Planner in response to the fact that one of his key areas of interest, the planning of licensed premises - Nightclubs, Hotels, Taverns/bars, Bottle shops, Restaurants etc - had become a unique area of planning due to increasingly detailed documentation, assessment and other requirements. Media, council, government and resident group interest in (and in some cases, hostility to) liquor-related issues has added to this complexity. Matt has nearly twenty years' experience in dealing with planning permit applications involving licensed premises both as a local government planning officer and (since 2003) as a consultant to both councils and private clients. In particular he was fortunate to have spent over four years (1997-2002) of his career in inner Melbourne, at the City of Yarra - which has one of Victoria's highest concentrations of licensed premises, and where licensed premises applications continue to be controversial. Matt was involved in determining applications involving licensed premises, as well as representing the council at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) in both merits hearings and at mediation. In the following years - as a consultant - licensed premises applications continued to be a key focus of Matt's professional activities. He was involved in many permit applications involving licensed premises - as a provider of letters, planning reports, noise and amenity action plans, cumulative impact assessments and verbal advice for private clients, and also as an assessor of licensed premises applications for councils. In his other business activities Matt continues to provide planning services of a more general nature.