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Owner's Representative Services

For owners without an in-house planning department. We sit on your side of the table, coordinate the consultant team, manage the municipal relationship, and keep the approvals schedule honest.

What the role covers

Running the consultant team as one process rather than a set of separate invoices: planner, engineer, architect, transportation, environmental, heritage, surveyor. Chasing the dependencies between them, which is where most delay actually lives.

Managing the municipal relationship, tracking each application against its statutory clock, and reporting back in terms an owner or a lender can act on rather than in planning jargon.

Who it suits

Owners with a single significant file and no internal capacity to run it. Investors carrying an entitlement risk they need managed rather than explained. Institutional and non-profit owners who need a planning voice that is theirs rather than the applicant's.

It also suits owners who already have a strong consultant team and simply need someone accountable for the whole of it.

How it differs from just hiring a planner

A planner prepares and defends an application. An owner's representative is accountable for the outcome across every application, every consultant and every municipal touchpoint on the file.

The difference shows up when something goes wrong, because the question of whose problem it is has already been answered.

Quoted separately
scoped to the file and its duration · fixed fee, confirmed before work begins
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FAQ

Common questions

Acts for the owner across the whole approvals process: coordinating the consultant team, managing municipal liaison, tracking applications against their statutory timelines, and reporting progress and risk to the owner.
A planner handles the planning applications. An owner's representative is accountable for the entire file, including the consultants who are not planners and the dependencies between them, which is usually where schedules slip.
Yes, and that is the common case. The role is coordination and accountability across the team you already have, not replacing it.
Fixed fee, scoped to the file and how long it is expected to run, confirmed before work begins. It is not billed hourly.
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