# Management 1.1 Pre-Application Meeting
# Applies to
All development
# Objective
To ensure appropriate sustainable design principles and strategies are considered from the preliminary design stage of each development by encouraging early involvement of a suitably qualified ESD professional.
# Summary
Points are awarded where the project design team includes suitably qualified ESD professionals to provide sustainable design advice from preliminary design through to construction, AND the ESD professional has been involved in a pre-application meeting with Council. A ‘suitably qualified’ ESD professional may hold a degree in architecture, engineering or another suitable discipline, and have either additional ESD qualifications or demonstrated ESD experience with built environment projects.
# Documentation & evidence required
- Name and qualification of ESD professional(s) engaged.
- Record of attendance at pre-application meeting. Provide date of the meeting and list of attendees.