Approved building envelopes and their associated Memorandum of Common Provisions are the statutory mechanisms for pre-approval of house siting and design provisions that vary from those in clause 54 of planning schemes and the Building Regulations. Except via a planning...
Collie has been assisting Frasers with obtaining planning approval for a medium density superlot that will comprise 41 townhouses within its 'The Grove' masterplanned community in Tarneit. (Base Source: Nearmap) The approved townhouses sit adjacent to the Davis Creek...
The Yarraville level crossing removal is going through a negative community campaign to have the design changed to provide better universal post-removal accessibility. In this case, the level crossing removal will remove altogether the existing vehicle access on Anderson Street...
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Collie was involved in an interesting recent planning application relating to the harvesting of Sea Cucumbers (animal not vegetable) and the processing of them to create health supplements in both capsule and tablet form. The process was defined under 'industry'...
Amendment GC296 was gazetted on 18 August 2026. It gives effect to the Connecting Fishermans Bend Integrated Transport Plan, September 2025 through amendments to the Melbourne and Port Phillip Planning Schemes. The 2025 Plan and GC296 deal with a number...
Collie recently assisted a client with planning investigations as part of its due diligence relating to the successful purchase of the site known as the 'Kensington Palace' in Kensington, NSW. The Collie investigations centered around the sites previous / current...
Amendment GC285 to six (Boroondara, Glen Eira, Greater Dandenong, Kingston, Stonnington and Whitehorse) Victorian planning schemes was gazetted on 22 July 2026. GC285 brings in stage 2 of the Victorian Government announcements on changes to planning schemes to promote housing...
You may recall that Collie assisted Stockland in obtaining a planning permit for its 'Halycon Horizon' residential village on Horseshoe Bend Road in the Armstrong Creek growth area to the south of Geelong. Since the issue of the permit in...
As of last Monday (6 July 2026), a six months trial commenced in Victoria of some time reductions in the process of objector review applications (under section 82(1) of the Planning and Environment Act 1987) to the Victorian Civil and...
More than a decade since the original approval of residential subdivision known as 'Subdivision Plan 30' (SP30) or Lakeside, within the Highlands masterplanned community, the development area is nearing completion. SP30 is situated within the Craigieburn R2 Precinct Structure Plan...