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After a long wait, the State Government has finally released the metropolitan planning strategy, ‘Plan Melbourne’. Plan Melbourne is a strategic document intended to guide the growth and development of the City until 2050. Following release of the draft version...
Dotted around urban areas in Thailand are outdoor gyms that are free to the public and at times are so popular, they have people waiting in line. ... and while on things Thai, this amazing all teak temple has been...
Some of the Collie staff attended the VPELA dinner last Friday night, the theme this year was silver screen in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of VPELA. It's always good to catch up with familiar faces at the planning 'night...
At long last the new development contributions have been announced! Now called Infrastructure Contribution Plans the new contributions will apply separate standard levies for growth areas and for identified strategic development areas, which will take effect from 1 July 2015. ...
Autumn is a great time to appreciate the beauty and diversity of the many different types of trees and plants that we have here in Victoria. And a great place to experience it all up-close is at the Royal Botanic...
Driving along discussing the colour green, babe points out a green sign on the roof of a taxi and asks what it says. Something along the lines of "More trains, trams, buses and extra services . . . . Moving Victoria". ...
Collie has recently worked on a number of residential projects in the Box Hill Central Activities Area. Recently, a town planning permit was granted by the City of Whitehorse for the development of a seven storey apartment building comprising 40...
Popular Swedish clothing company H&M last week celebrated the launch of its first Australian store in the iconic Melbourne General Post Office (GPO) building. Collie provided town planning services to H&M and managed the submission of a planning permit application...
Collie was pleased to have provided town planning services in a planning permit application granted earlier this week for a new Masters Home Improvement store in Shepparton. The new Masters store will be located on the corner of Florence Street...
A draft of the revised State Planning Policy Framework (SPPF) now referred to as the Planning Policy Framework (PPF), has been prepared by an advisory committee. Proposed Changes In order to make planning policy easier to navigate, the draft PPF...