Monash University demographer Dr.Bob Birrell recently stated that rapid population growth was fueling escalating prices on the city fringe.”Aspiring home owners are leapfrogging ,they are looking further afield for affordable housing and it’s setting off development booms in some country towns.” Some country residents and councils are worried that the population increase is putting stress [...]
Yarra council is considering a planned apartment block where instead of parking spaces residents will be given Myki cards. The proposal is for 12 apartments and will include a 22 bay bicycle rack,a roof top communal vegetable garden,a car share scheme but no parking spaces for residents. The energy rating will be over 7 star [...]
The Age newspaper reports that an area twice the size of Docklands is to be opened up for inner- city housing under an ambitious plan to be launched by the Victorian Baillieu government. About 200 hectares of land around Fishermans Bend-now a light industrial area of factories and vacant lots near West Gate Bridge-is to [...]
On 02.06.11, In Planning, by Geoff Buck
Height limits to retain view of the Shrine,as reported in The Sunday Age February 6 2011,by Anna Whitelaw. Planning minister Mathew Guy has made his first ministerial intervention,blocking several high rise developments proposed near the Shrine of Remembrance on St. Kilda Road. Last week,Mr. Guy quietly made a ministerial order to impose mandatory height limits [...]