Date: 18th Jul, 2024 - 18th Jul, 2024

Time: 4:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Venue: The Wine House

Address: 133 Queens Bridge St, Southbank VIC 3006

Organiser: GEMS Event Management

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Description:

Melbourne Water has been supporting development with drainage schemes for decades, but have they evolved effectively alongside the industry knowledge base, technology, innovation, and overall need?

Stormwater Victoria and ALDE are teaming up to bring our members an evening of productive discussion on how we can work together to improve drainage schemes including the planning and delivery of integrated water management. The session is intended to be interactive, whereby you, our valued members will share experiences and test ideas around existing implementation frameworks (such as DSS’s, PSP’s and DCP’s), their current effectiveness and potential future role in supporting the delivery of IWM outcomes.

Featuring a panel of industry experts in engineering, planning, law and economics, we will discuss the most pressing challenges of implementing IWM strategies in the modern development context. We will collectively brainstorm how we can work together to influence and improve existing regulatory processes and better support the delivery of Victoria’s Housing Statement: The Decade Ahead 2024-2034. 

 

Event Details

Date: Thursday, 18 July 2024

Time: 4.30 pm - 8.30 pm

Location: Wine House

133 Queens Bridge Street, Southbank VIC 3006

Registration fee: $40 per person. Registration fee includes drinks and canapes.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a member-only event for current, financial members of either Stormwater Victoria or ALDE. Tickets are limited to only 100 places, so register early to secure your spot!

If you are not a member, follow the association links below to gain more information on how to sign up for membership.

 

Panellists

Aaron Dowling

 Associate Engineer, e2designlab

 

Aaron is a Civil Engineer with 14 years’ experience in integrated water management, strategy development and WSUD design gathered during his career spanning across the public and private sector. He is passionate about the design and implementation of innovative water servicing solutions that deliver high value community outcomes while protecting and enhancing the natural environment.

His strong technical and strategic capabilities have been developed from broad exposure to development industry standards and practices, including the creation, review and delivery of Melbourne Water Development Services Schemes (DSS’s). Through this, he has gained a strong appreciation of the challenges and complexity of drainage system design, implementation and opportunities to incorporate integrated outcomes within the Scheme framework. He has developed tools, authored guidelines and manuals and delivered training to support industry in designing and delivering WSUD and IWM solutions. Leveraging these qualities, he has also led the delivery of numerous major IWM Plans and WSUD masterplans across Victoria, incorporating adaptive IWM pathway planning approaches.

 

 

Kate Matthews

Principal Partner, Tract Consulting

 

Kate is a Principal Planner at Tract Consultants with over 15 years of experience in statutory and strategic planning in government and consultant roles, largely focused on greenfields and major infrastructure planning. This experience has provided her with a strong practical understanding of working across and with technical disciplines, particularly engineering.

Kate has a specific interest in planning for Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) and Integrated Water Cycle Management (IWCM) through her exposure to stormwater management policy, modelling and asset design through her previous roles at Melbourne Water and Cardno. She currently delivers training on the planning scheme requirements for stormwater quality through Clearwater and PLANET (Planning Institute of Australia).

 

Jeremy Cheeseman

Director, Marsden Jacob Associates 

 

Jeremy is a Director at Marsden Jacob Associates. He is an experienced environmental and resource economist, specialising in water and the environment, and in urban and rural water infrastructure funding and financing.

Jeremy works with governments, water businesses and Councils across Australia stormwater advising on infrastructure financing and funding mechanisms, and governance reforms to support financing and funding of stormwater investments that support communities and the environment.   Among other things he:

• Was a member of the Victorian Stormwater Ministerial Advisory Committee in 2018 that led to amendments to planning and development controls for improving stormwater management, strengthened the links between water management and urban planning, and supported the development of funding and financing mechanisms for stormwater in Victoria.
• Led the development of the Victorian approach to urban stormwater offsets, which has now been rolled out across around 12 Victorian Councils, and the Victorian water quality offsets framework for regulated water businesses.
• Works with regulated water businesses across Victoria, NSW, Tasmania and South Australia to gain funding for discretionary stormwater investments through their customer facing price submissions.
• Has advised Victorian, South Australian, and Queensland State Governments on governance and regulatory reforms that could support improved stormwater investment outcomes and funding, as part of integrated water planning.

 

John Cicero

Partner, Best Hoop Lawyers

 

John joined Best Hooper in 1993, bringing to the firm expertise and experience acquired in a legal career which commenced in 1976.

John appears regularly as an advocate in all planning jurisdictions and has particular expertise in the areas of major projects, greenfields and brownfields sites, local government, environmental, property development and liquor licensing. He advises on projects of all scales across Victoria.

He is a fellow of VPELA, a former President of the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) and has been recognised in Doyle’s Guide (from 2016 – 2024) as one of only a small handful of “preeminent” lawyers in the planning and environment. In 2024 he was recognised as the Best Lawyer in Australia for Land Use and Zoning Law by Best Lawyers.