Blog - Change of Plan

March 29, 2018

How to Calculate Time on Failure to Determine Applications

Posted at 01:32h in VCAT

Council's have 60 statutory days to determine a planning application. If a decision is not made within that time, the applicant can lodge an application to VCAT. This type of application is called a Failure to Determine, or a Section 79 Appeal. This means that...

March 18, 2018

What You Should Know About Suburban Tree Removal

Posted at 17:23h in Planning Policy

Tree removal in urban properties may be needed for a number of reasons: To make way for an addition or a new dwelling To make space in the yard To remove a problem tree or to maintain tree health Before picking up that chainsaw it is...

March 13, 2018

How is Fast Track Town Planning Progressing?

Posted at 23:23h in Planning Process

A couple of years ago I wrote about a new fast track program that the State Government was introducing called VicSmart. You can read more about the program here and about what I wrote here. As the program has been going for a while now I...

March 01, 2018

Road Zones Explained

Posted at 22:50h in Uncategorized

When you obtain a Planning Certificate or Planning Map of your property, you may see that you are adjacent to a different coloured road like below: There are two categories of road, Road Zone Category 1 (pink in zoning maps) and Road Zone Category 2 (yellow...

December 16, 2017

Better Apartment Design Standards. The ‘BADS’ not so bad?

Posted at 20:46h in Planning Controls, Planning Process

On Tuesday the 14th of November we had a representative from our office attend a day dedicated to learning about the new Better Apartment Design Standards, or the BADS: Clause 58. The BADS are set our similarly to Clause 54, 55 and 56 in the...