- Understanding new Cl55 Provisions
- Implementing Growth Zones
- Applicants Frustrated by Increasing Advertising Periods
- Game Changer for Multi-Dwelling Developments in Victoria: New Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- Planning Scheme Amendment VC257 – New zone and overlay to support housing in and around activity centres
- Ultimatum for Councils to facilitate housing growth
- New Small Lot Housing Code
- VCAT decision – Appealing permit conditions when a new permit trigger is activated
- Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- VCAT Practice Day Decisions
- More on Permit Triggers
- Limits of Tribunal Consideration where some permit triggers are exempt from third party notice and appeal
- Effect of third-party appeal exemptions on Omnibus permits
- Big changes are afoot, we think!
- No more gas connections
- A Right to a View in Planning
- VCAT: “Sorry Not Our Gig”
- A Win for Energy Efficiency
- A Year In Review
- Aboriginal Cultural Heritage
- Accuracy of plans and calculating overshadowing
- Aged Care Facilities Providing a Big Planning Boost
- All Council Schemes to Change
- Amended Rural Zones Announced
- Amending a Planning Permit
- Amendment GC197 – Suburban Rail Loop
- AMENDMENT VC 148 (Part 2)
- Amendment VC050 – Residential aged care facilities
- AMENDMENT VC148
- Ancillary Activities Provisions and Why They Matter to Permit Applicants
- Another Note on Restrictive Covenants
- Appealing a Decision of VCAT
- Appealing a VCAT Decision to the Supreme Court
- Applicants Frustrated by Increasing Advertising Periods
- Applying for Costs at VCAT
- Are Common Land Applications Futile?
- Are you in for structure?
- Asking too Much. What’s in an Application?
- At Last: A Stick for Applicants
- At VCAT Yesterday
- Auditing potentially contaminated land when there is no Land
- Banyule in Trouble for Wishywashy Refusals
- Be Careful What You Wish For
- Beneficiaries to Covenants left Vexed by VCAT Decision
- Best and Worst Council’s to Work With.
- Better Apartments Draft Design Standards finally released
- Better Recycling for Victoria
- Beware the Day Before your Lapse Date
- Big Brother is Watching
- Big changes are afoot, we think!
- Body Corporate Consent for Development
- Building Regulations for Garden Area Requirements
- Bushfire Changes = New Opportunities
- Bushfire Exemptions expire
- Bushfire Mapping – New & Updated Provisions
- Bushfire Prone Area Mapping Updated
- Bushfire Prone Areas – Game Changer
- C190 Revolutionary Dual-Occ Amendment at Moreland
- Calculating Council’s 60 Day Timeframe
- Calculating Council’s 60 Day Statutory Timeframe
- Car Parking: 4 Point Turns
- Change to access to a Road Zone Category 1
- Changes Impact VCAT Applications
- Changes to CHMP Requirements and Process
- Changes to some GRZ & NRZ schedules
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- Implementing Growth Zones
- Understanding new Cl55 Provisions
- Applicants Frustrated by Increasing Advertising Periods
- Game Changer for Multi-Dwelling Developments in Victoria: New Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- Planning Scheme Amendment VC257 – New zone and overlay to support housing in and around activity centres
- Ultimatum for Councils to facilitate housing growth
- New Small Lot Housing Code
- VCAT decision – Appealing permit conditions when a new permit trigger is activated
- VCAT Practice Day Decisions
- More on Permit Triggers
- Limits of Tribunal Consideration where some permit triggers are exempt from third party notice and appeal
- Effect of third-party appeal exemptions on Omnibus permits
- Big changes are afoot, we think!
- Proof of continuous use
- Effect of third party appeal exemptions on Omibus permits
- Limits of Tribunal Consideration where some permit triggers are exempt from third party notice and appeal
- Permit no longer required
- No more gas connections
- New Residential Zone provisions
- Red dot decision – Objectors Locked Out Again
- Red Dot Decision – Objector Locked Out of VCAT.
- More Permit Exemptions for Buildings in Some Rural Areas
- State Department Name Change
- Industry Separation Distances and Landfill Buffers Consultation
- New Planning Practice Note on Reflected Glare
- Planning Scheme Amendment VC201 – stronger recognition and protection of waterways, lakes, wetlands and billabongs
- VCAT – more compulsory conferences
- Incorporated Documents now available online
- Amendment GC197 – Suburban Rail Loop
- VC222 – Kindergartens and the 2026 Commonwealth Games
- When do you require a permit to alter access to a Transport Zone 2?
- Signage: Zone vs Overlay categories
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- Planning Scheme Amendment VC205 – Transport Zones
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- Privacy Requirements Set to Add Significant Complexity for Permit Applicants
- Changes Impact VCAT Applications
- Interpreting Mandatory Height Control Exemptions in Residential Zones
- Subdivision and the Minimum Garden Area Requirement
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- Planning Fees to Increase
- VCAT hearing fees.
- Objectors Lodge Wrong Application Form – One Yes & One No
- VCAT goes fully digital
- Dependent Person’s Units and Movable Buildings
- Some changes to some residential zones – Planning Scheme Amendment GC172
- Bushfire Exemptions expire
- Design Matters National Presentation 2020
- Food and Drink Exemptions
- Christmas Advertising Extended
- State Planning Policy – housing supply, location, character and infrastructure
- Existing Use Rights
- Mandatory Height Controls and Garden Areas: VCAT’s Differing Approach
- Secondary Dwelling Pilot Program
- Important Changes to Bushfire Exemptions
- All Council Schemes to Change
- Councils Being a Bit Cheeky
- Stage 4 Lockdown: Councils & VCAT
- VCAT Reforms in 2020
- Getting an Exemption to the Garden Area Requirements
- Forming Meaningful Attachments
- Updated Industrial Buffers (now known as “Threshold distances”)
- C190 Revolutionary Dual-Occ Amendment at Moreland
- Planning Permit Decision Time Frames
- COVID 19 What Planning Permit Applicants Need to Know
- At VCAT Yesterday
- COVID 19: What permit applicants need to know
- VCAT COVID-19 Delays
- VCAT: Getting an objector’s appeal summarily struck-out
- VCAT: Objector appeals for commercial advantage
- Clause 1 Message re COVID-19
- Auditing potentially contaminated land when there is no Land
- Better Recycling for Victoria
- COVID 19 & Your Planning Application (March 2020):
- VCAT approves variation to single dwelling covenant, at last, to make way for new development
- Residential Solar Panel Confusion
- Understanding how Council’s plan for housing growth & use residential zones
- The Importance of Trees
- CHMP: Small Lot Exemptions
- Christmas Notification Blackouts
- Multiple Small Lots & CHMP Exemptions
- Bushfire Prone Area Mapping Updated
- Contaminated Land Mapping
- VCAT Red Dot Decisions – Development Plans
- Extension of Better Apartment Standards
- Garden Area and “The Lot”
- Land Use Definitions
- Aged Care Facilities Providing a Big Planning Boost
- Council’s Process Benchmarked
- Your proposal and your neighbour’s solar panels
- Car Parking: 4 Point Turns
- Underutilised: Certificate of Compliance
- Part 1: Partial CHMP = No CHMP
- Part 2: Struck Out but Still Alive.
- Internal Living Areas in Apartments
- Inconsistent Reference Documents
- Emails Comms in Planning Matters
- Mornington Amendment Concerns
- Lapse Date Change
- Planning Decision Flip, Flop, Flip, Flop… FLOP!
- Residential aged-care facilities get a boost in residential zones
- Accuracy of plans and calculating overshadowing
- New State-wide Integrated Water Management Policy
- Red Dots: Changes Prior to VCAT, CHMPs, Garden Areas, Zoning
- More Protection for Rooftop Solar Panels
- New Commercial 3 Zone
- AMENDMENT VC 148 (Part 2)
- AMENDMENT VC148
- Stonnington Barking up the Trees
- Notice of Decision – from 21 to 28 days
- Waste Management & Recycling in Multi-Unit Developments
- Building Regulations for Garden Area Requirements
- DELWP ONLINE RESOURCE LIBRARY
- Hidden Controls
- Existing use Rights but not an Existing Building
- Garden Area Clarification – Kind of…
- New Garden Area Changes: Puts a lid on one can of worms & opens another
- Bushfire Prone Areas – Game Changer
- Are Common Land Applications Futile?
- Time elapsed when Council does the advertising
- To Detail or Not to Detail
- When is a Change not an Amendment?
- Fire Damage
- “Incorporated” v “Reference” Docs
- Planning Permit Application Forms
- 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?
- One Planner’s Perspective
- Understanding new Cl55 Provisions
- Implementing Growth Zones
- Applicants Frustrated by Increasing Advertising Periods
- Game Changer for Multi-Dwelling Developments in Victoria: New Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- Planning Scheme Amendment VC257 – New zone and overlay to support housing in and around activity centres
- Ultimatum for Councils to facilitate housing growth
- New Small Lot Housing Code
- VCAT decision – Appealing permit conditions when a new permit trigger is activated
- Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- VCAT Practice Day Decisions
- More on Permit Triggers
- Limits of Tribunal Consideration where some permit triggers are exempt from third party notice and appeal
- Effect of third-party appeal exemptions on Omnibus permits
- Big changes are afoot, we think!
- No more gas connections
- Understanding new Cl55 Provisions
- Implementing Growth Zones
- Applicants Frustrated by Increasing Advertising Periods
- Game Changer for Multi-Dwelling Developments in Victoria: New Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- Planning Scheme Amendment VC257 – New zone and overlay to support housing in and around activity centres
- Ultimatum for Councils to facilitate housing growth
- New Small Lot Housing Code
- VCAT decision – Appealing permit conditions when a new permit trigger is activated
- Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- VCAT Practice Day Decisions
- More on Permit Triggers
- Limits of Tribunal Consideration where some permit triggers are exempt from third party notice and appeal
- Effect of third-party appeal exemptions on Omnibus permits
- Big changes are afoot, we think!
- No more gas connections
- Understanding new Cl55 Provisions
- Implementing Growth Zones
- Applicants Frustrated by Increasing Advertising Periods
- Game Changer for Multi-Dwelling Developments in Victoria: New Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- Planning Scheme Amendment VC257 – New zone and overlay to support housing in and around activity centres
- Ultimatum for Councils to facilitate housing growth
- New Small Lot Housing Code
- VCAT decision – Appealing permit conditions when a new permit trigger is activated
- Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- VCAT Practice Day Decisions
- More on Permit Triggers
- Limits of Tribunal Consideration where some permit triggers are exempt from third party notice and appeal
- Effect of third-party appeal exemptions on Omnibus permits
- Big changes are afoot, we think!
- No more gas connections
- Understanding new Cl55 Provisions
- Implementing Growth Zones
- Applicants Frustrated by Increasing Advertising Periods
- Game Changer for Multi-Dwelling Developments in Victoria: New Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- Planning Scheme Amendment VC257 – New zone and overlay to support housing in and around activity centres
- Ultimatum for Councils to facilitate housing growth
- New Small Lot Housing Code
- VCAT decision – Appealing permit conditions when a new permit trigger is activated
- Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- VCAT Practice Day Decisions
- More on Permit Triggers
- Limits of Tribunal Consideration where some permit triggers are exempt from third party notice and appeal
- Effect of third-party appeal exemptions on Omnibus permits
- Big changes are afoot, we think!
- No more gas connections
- Understanding new Cl55 Provisions
- Implementing Growth Zones
- Applicants Frustrated by Increasing Advertising Periods
- Game Changer for Multi-Dwelling Developments in Victoria: New Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- Planning Scheme Amendment VC257 – New zone and overlay to support housing in and around activity centres
- Ultimatum for Councils to facilitate housing growth
- New Small Lot Housing Code
- VCAT decision – Appealing permit conditions when a new permit trigger is activated
- Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- VCAT Practice Day Decisions
- More on Permit Triggers
- Limits of Tribunal Consideration where some permit triggers are exempt from third party notice and appeal
- Effect of third-party appeal exemptions on Omnibus permits
- Big changes are afoot, we think!
- No more gas connections
- Understanding new Cl55 Provisions
- Implementing Growth Zones
- Applicants Frustrated by Increasing Advertising Periods
- Game Changer for Multi-Dwelling Developments in Victoria: New Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- Planning Scheme Amendment VC257 – New zone and overlay to support housing in and around activity centres
- Ultimatum for Councils to facilitate housing growth
- New Small Lot Housing Code
- VCAT decision – Appealing permit conditions when a new permit trigger is activated
- Townhouse and Low-Rise Code
- VCAT Practice Day Decisions
- More on Permit Triggers
- Limits of Tribunal Consideration where some permit triggers are exempt from third party notice and appeal
- Effect of third-party appeal exemptions on Omnibus permits
- Big changes are afoot, we think!
- No more gas connections
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Understanding new Cl55 Provisions
Ashley Thompson recently presented to the ISV, CSV, and DMN seminars on t...