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Collie was part of the project team (project managers Thinc Projects, Insite Architects and the owner St Andrews Court Pty Ltd), to facilitate redevelopment of the Hilltop Aged Care Facility on the corner of Hotham and Montague Streets, Preston. The...
Collie provided town planning services to Bensons Property Group to facilitate the demolition of a former knitwear factory and its re-development for a seven storeys mixed-use commercial and residential building, at 29-31 Frith Street, Brunswick. The proposal will provide 100...
Since 2004 Collie has been providing town planning services to the Goodman Group in relation to the development of an approximate 58 hectares of land adjacent to the Hume Highway and Craigieburn By-pass in Craigieburn. When Collie were first approached,...
The athletes village in London for the 2012 Summer Olympics consists of 11 tower blocks, 17,320 beds and providing each athlete with 16 square metres of floor space. After the Olympics, the village will provide 2,818 new homes for East...
Planning Minister Matthew Guy yesterday announced significant reforms to Victoria’s planning zones. The changes, which include the deletion of nine existing zones and the addition of five new zones (see table below), are intended to provide greater certainty for industry,...
News Limited finance guru Terry McCrann was the guest speaker at the July UDIA lunch attended by Collie. In summary, McCrann suggested that our future is inextricably linked to the future of China. Although the economic growth in China has...
Results of the 2011 census were released last week, with some interesting findings for Melbourne and Victoria. The census recorded a total of 3,999,982 Melburnians, up from 3,647,021, in 2006. Wyndham experienced the highest growth with an increase of 43.3...
The VanDusen (named after one of its key benefactors) Garden is in the suburbs of Vancouver, Canada. For five decades until about 1960, it had been part of an exclusive golf club. The club re-located due to the expansion of...
The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) is North America's most innovative high-performance building - and it is on the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus in Vancouver, Canada. CIRS demonstrates how a building can be regenerative by...
The Minister for Planning made a number of significant planning announcements at a recent function held at Federation Square attended by Collie. First, the Minister released the four new Growth Corridor Plans for Melbourne. These plans are for the...