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Collie assisted Baumgart Clark Architects with its planning permit for a multi-storey mixed use development in Leeds Street, Footscray. The site is located in the heart of the commercial area of Footscray and adjoins an area of public open space,...
According to the Australian Financial Review (12 November 2014), 'One Central Park' in Sydney CBD has been named best tall building in the world, beating towers in the US, Europe and Dubai. "The award, from the US-based Council on Tall...
We are pleased to congratulate Collie Project Director Aran Barker, Anita and Grace on the arrival of Thomas, born 9 November 2014. Mum and baby doing well (and even Dad seems OK).
Next Saturday, Victorians votes on their next State government so we’ve done a very quick review of the Liberal, ALP and Greens campaign websites as they refer to town planning – we could not find much under the topic. Unlike...
There are some interesting statistics from the Victorian Planning Permit Activity Annual Report for the 2013 / 2014. 56,411 planning permit applications were lodged in Victoria, which represents a 9.1 per cent increase (or a 14.4 per cent increase for...
The Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police, Ken Lay, made an impressive case for policing change in an address to a Hume Business Breakfast on Friday 14 November. It was on this day exactly three years ago that Mr Lay was...
I am a Melbournian and over the long weekend I read in the newspaper that in the 1980s the Melbourne CBD only had two sidewalk cafes; now there are over 500 - and it got me thinking how lucky I...
On display as part of the Melbourne Festival [and extending until 23 November 2014] is an exhibition referencing key vegetative elements of a landscape [in particular the grasses and low growing shrubs] which would have existed before 1830 in the...
The future planning and provision of affordable housing is an important challenge for Melbourne. Last week Aran Barker (Project Director at Collie) participated in an industry workshop on 'affordable housing'. The workshop was part of 'Transforming Housing' - a research...
Collie has recently assisted Goodman Property Services (Goodman) in obtaining a planning permit to allow for the expansion of its distribution centre in Boundary Road, Laverton North. The planning permit will allow for the use and development of three large...