Our Identity
Meet the owner-side team managing South Australian developments from feasibility and approvals through delivery and exit.
CPM works with landowners and investors who want to develop, subdivide, build or assess a property opportunity, but do not have an internal development team. We manage the development process on the client's behalf.
Our Mission
To help landowners and investors make clearer development decisions by managing feasibility, approvals, consultant coordination, construction pathways and exit planning.
Our Vision
To make professional development management more accessible to clients who have land or capital, but need an experienced team to coordinate the pathway.
CPM is your development manager — and behind us sits a full bench: surveyors, planners, architects, engineers and a building team inside our group, with trusted external firms beside them. On your project, in-house and external options are compared to the same brief; related-party involvement is disclosed, you see the comparison and keep the final call.
Our role is to replace guesswork with verdicts before capital is committed — approvable, buildable, bankable — then keep the development pathway aligned with those verdicts from planning approval through design, construction and exit.
Our planning view is informed by published research covering 20,000+ South Australian planning consents, while each project is assessed on its own parcel, design, costs and objectives. You own the land and the decisions; we connect the evidence and the people responsible for delivery.
Understand what your land could become before you sell, subdivide or develop.
You have the site. CPM manages the development pathway from feasibility to exit.
Assess development opportunities before committing capital.
Outsource the front end — feasibility, design and DA — on a fixed fee.
The Complete Front End
Every pre-approval discipline sits inside the group. Nothing waits in another firm’s inbox, nothing is lost between consultants — the only hand-off is to the council.
The site as it actually is — contours, structures, services.
IN-HOUSEZone, overlays and the pathway the Code allows.
IN-HOUSEConcept to DA set, tested against Code and budget.
IN-HOUSECivil, structural and traffic — resolved on the drawings.
IN-HOUSEThe three-way verdict: approvable, buildable, bankable.
IN-HOUSEPlanSA submission, referrals and RFIs worked to consent.
IN-HOUSEThe stated exception: statutory cadastral survey and building certification always sit with independent licensed professionals — exactly where the law puts them. That boundary is part of why the rest can be trusted.
How we manage development differently.
Planning controls, market configuration, costs, cash flow and sensitivity are tested before serious capital is committed.
Council responses, referrals and consultant inputs are coordinated against one brief and a site-specific programme.
In-house and external options are compared openly. Related-party involvement is disclosed and key appointments remain the owner’s decision.
Research & Recognition
Our read on South Australia's planning approvals isn't a sales line. It is peer-recognised research, and it runs straight through how we assess your site.
“Unlocking the Building Pipeline in a Housing Crisis: Data Mining South Australia's Planning Approval Processes” — Best Paper at the 48th AUBEA International Conference, University of Canberra, 26–28 November 2025.
The study traced planning approval delays to procedural complexity — notification, tree removal, zoning, lot count, housing type — rather than the merits of the application itself.
Across Adelaide's metropolitan councils, planning consent averages roughly 47 to 108 days — the slowest council takes more than twice as long as the fastest (400 applications, 2020–2025).
You keep ownership and the decisions. We manage the process on your behalf — and our group carries its own delivery bench, used only when it wins an open comparison. Here is how each role around a development works, and where we stand.
The Evidence Base
Dr William Jiang is one of four named researchers on the study behind Chapter 2 of RESI's Australia Housing Market White Paper — work that received the Best Paper Award at the 48th AUBEA International Conference. It is why our view of South Australian approval timing is evidence, not opinion.
Residential subdivision consent applications lodged through PlanSA between January 2022 and June 2025.
Proportionally sampled across all 18 metropolitan councils, so council-level variation is measurable.
Source: Australian Residential Construction Institute (RESI), Australia Housing Market White Paper 2026. Chapter 2 draws on original research by Percy Zhang, Dr Ruidong Chang, Dr Joy Fang, Dr William Jiang — “Unlocking the Building Pipeline in a Housing Crisis: Data Mining South Australia’s Planning Approval Processes” — recipient of the Best Paper Award, 48th AUBEA International Conference. Used with permission.
Director / COO of DDDI Group
Managing Director & Head of Data
Frequently Asked Questions
Use Market Evidence to Understand the Opportunity and Support Better Investment Decisions
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