Fraser Bell

Fraser leads the group focusing on all aspects of environmental and planning law, climate change and contaminated land.

Fraser has extensive experience in industrial and commercial property industry and regularly advises on environmental aspects of property acquisitions and disposals. He also advises on major development projects, construction financing, management of property portfolios and leasing.

Fraser focuses on providing pragmatic, solution-oriented, commercial advice on all transactions with an environmental aspect. He delivers commercially based outcomes to the environmental challenges his clients face in transactional work, Environment Protection Authority (EPA) compliance, and obtaining development approvals.

Fraser is a member of the Property Council of Australia Sustainable Development Committee (SA Branch), and Chair of the National Carbon Committee of the Waste Management Association of Australia (SA Branch).

Recent experiences includes:

• Advising a multinational food and beverage company on the property and environmental departments on a national manufacturing portfolio.
• Advising the receivers and managers of a manufacturing facility on a negotiation of a 10 year EPA licence (the first to be granted by the regulator).
• Advising national Australian wine producers on the water licensing regimes regarding water restrictions.
• Acting for Wine labels and grape growers in Parliamentary enquiry into the management of regulated groundwater resources and the impact of plantation timber on resource management issues.