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- Changes to some GRZ & NRZ schedules
- Native Vegetation Removal
- Christmas Notification Blackouts
- Bushfire Mapping - New & Updated Provisions
- Councils Fight Back on VCAT Fees
- When Can I Seek a S.115CA Reimbursement
- VC139 – New Apartment Design Guidelines for Applicants
- VCAT Daily Hearing Fees
- VicSmart: The Onus is on the Applicant
- More Smart Classes
- Smart Planning Online
- VicSmart
- Incomplete right of appeal
- Smart Planning Program
- Is a Garden Under an Eave a Garden Area?
- Under development
- Latest Residential Zone Changes: What Practitioners Need to Know
- Expansion of VicSmart
- Should an extension to a permit be granted after an amendment to a planning scheme prohibits a proposal?
- Changes to CHMP Requirements and Process
- Calculating Council’s 60 Day Statutory Timeframe
- New Fee Confusion: Secondary Consent Rip-off
- Loophole Allows More than Two Dwellings in NRZ
- Tree Removal Exemptions Clarified
- “Under the Counter” Policies – Again
- New Planning Fees Shock
- Are you in for structure?
- Better Apartments Draft Design Standards finally released
- Expiring Permits in New Zones
- Correcting Mistakes
- VCAT’s New Fee Structure
- VCAT: Bali Belly or Belligerence?
- Planning Fees Increase: c. Oct 2016
- Proposed Amendment Slammed: C140
- Here Comes The Sun
- Beware the Day Before your Lapse Date
- Extension on extension (hold on, I’m not quite finished yet)
- More on the Number of Objections
- MPL: A Costly Reminder
- Screening: More or Less Obscure?
- Be Careful What You Wish For
- Change to access to a Road Zone Category 1
- VCAT Says Objectors Cannot Hide
- Common Land vs Carriageway Easements VCAT’s Position
- A Win for Energy Efficiency
- VCAT Will Make Council Pay Your Fees
- Old Permits Continue to Have Affect
- New Metropolitan Planning Levy for Planning Permit Applications
- Objections and Social Impact
- Updated Planning Regulations
- Removal of Vegetation versus Fire Protection
- VicSmart: Narrow Focus Maintained
- No CHMP no Tick-Tock Regardless of Declaration
- Listen Up: RZSAC Advice falling on deaf ears
- Zone Changes for Forever
- Bushfire Changes = New Opportunities
- New MSS for Moreland Increases Info Requirements
- Water Power Warning
- Changes to VCAT Procedures
- Even Worse than a Refusal at VCAT
- Noisy Agent of Change
- Don’t Use the “A” Word
- Kantor vs Construction
- Notice of Objector Appeals
- Planning & Environment Regulations Review (Sept 2014)
- VCAT Advice on How to Brief for CHMPS
- New Zone Warning for Applicants
- Victoria's New Residential Zones
- VCAT's Position on Development Overshadowing Solar Panels
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