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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
Objectors’ (lack of) Appeal Rights
Transformation of a planning permit through an amendment application
Planning Scheme Amendment VC205 – Transport Zones
New and updated apartment standards
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
Extractive Industries Protection from Residential Uses
State Projects and Local Government projects – New Planning Scheme Provisions 
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