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Amendments to planning schemes (such as rezonings) often involve long, drawn out processes with few statutory time frames. One could be forgiven for thinking that key steps in the process appear to be at the whim of the relevant planning...
The Victorian Government is partnering with Hanover Welfare Services and the Brotherhood of St Laurence to build a 'youth foyer' on Kangan Institute's Broadmeadows campus. The Victorian Government made an election commitment to invest $30.1 million over three years to...
Previous articles in this column have discussed some of the planning issues relating to the devastating earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand. This has included commentary on the pop-up retail precinct utilising shipping containers and the new town plan released in...
Interesting to look at the photograph below that was included in the 'Shaping Melbourne's Future' report of August 1987. There have been one or two changes since the photograph!! No Southbank / casino but the old road No Docklands /...
The recent traffic congestion in Melbourne resulting from the 12-hour closure of two key road tunnel links can be compared with the altogether different pace of life and style and operation of bridges and road links in country Belgium. The...
Australia’s outer suburbs have been growing at a rapid pace. Despite recent shifts in metropolitan planning toward urban containment and infill development, housing at the fringe continues to dominate our nation’s residential growth. With Melbourne’s urban growth boundary under its...
Collie recently attended a public lecture by Places Victoria on the next ten years of Docklands, arranged by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. Docklands has generated its fair share of controversy since development first began a little over...
At the time of construction high rise public housing in the 1960s and 1970s was seen to be the solution to housing Melbourne's disadvantaged. Today it is commonly recognised that these 'towers', some up to 22 storeys in height, have...
In a bid to resurrect the building industry and 'kick start' the economy the UK Government has announced new proposals which will eliminate the need for home owners to get planning permission to construct house extensions and conservatoires to their...