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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...
The Minister for Planning has appointed a Standing Advisory Committee (the Advisory Committee) to consider the proposed application of the three new residential zones into council planning schemes. Councils have until the end of June this year to implement the...
On 13 march 2014, the Premier of Victoria announced the results of a Cabinet re-shuffle to take effect on 17 March. The rumoured changes in recent weeks to the planning portfolio did not happen, with Matthew Guy remaining as Minister...
This weekend in Melbourne we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Moomba Festival. The creation of Moomba was arguably the beginning of a wonderful tradition of major events in Melbourne. Following the demise of the Labour Day Procession in 1952,...