SJ Design & Planning is a building design and town planning studio. We work with clients who want a considered house, an extension that feels inevitable, or a planning pathway that is clear from the first conversation.
We are interested in how you live — light, landscape, street, family, and the quiet details that make a room feel settled. The drawings come after that conversation.
Read on to see how we might work with you, then write to us so we can begin.
Contact usNew homes, alterations and additions, dual occupancy and small commercial projects. Each commission is treated as its own problem — site, planning overlay, budget and the way you actually use the rooms.
We prepare concept sketches, planning documentation and construction drawings, and we stay close to the project through council and builder conversations.
Building design for residential and commercial projects, from the initial brief through to planning and permit documentation. We prepare town planning applications, planning reports and responses to council, and provide practical advice throughout the approval process.
Where useful, we also develop 3D studies to help clients understand the scale, form and volume of a project before it is built.
We do not use the title of architect. We are a design and planning practice focused on thoughtful briefs, clear documentation, planning approvals and practical project outcomes.
SJ Design & Planning Pty Ltd was established to give clients a single studio for both design and planning — so the house that is drawn is also the house that can be approved.
ABN 42 682 926 825
Listen. Measure the site. Test options quickly. Settle a direction. Document for planning, then for construction. We keep the process readable — what happens next, what council will ask, what the builder needs.
Projects across metropolitan and regional Victoria.
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Tell us about the site, the brief, and where you are in the process. We will come back with how we might help.