Having reduced Bent Street Bentleigh to ‘Calcutta’, developers are now moving into the next street – Vickery St. In the current agenda there is an application for 4 storeys, 47 dwellings over 3 lots (15-19 Vickery). This site backs onto Bent St (14-16) where a permit was granted for 4 storeys and 50 dwellings. Thus 6 houses now make way for 97 units!
But as with Carnegie, where developers first ruined Elliott Avenue, then set their sights on Tranmere, and the next street along, Vickery in Bentleigh is going the same way – all due to its zoning as Residential Growth Zone.
Other properties recently sold or being developed in Vickery include:
24-26 Vickery – sold for $3.6 million (2015)
14 Vickery – permit for 10 x 2 storey townhouses
Glen Eira Debates 
February 1, 2016 at 1:37 PM
I can’t see someone who has paid 3.6 million go for anything less than four storeys and 50 or so apartments. Agree completely that the writing is now on the wall for Vickery Street and after they’ve butchered this they will move onto the next street.
February 1, 2016 at 3:28 PM
How come Council Planners find a 9 story with 49 apartments in Centre Road too complex to handle, yet are quite at ease with 4 stories and 50 apartments located in a side street.
There’s something going on here.
February 1, 2016 at 7:06 PM
Today’s Crikey has a partial explanation in an article by Stephen Mayne discussing the urgent need for political campaign finance reform. In it he comments just how poor the current regime is for reporting donations, noting those donations are used to purchase influence and favourable decisions. “Victorians, in particular, should be crawling all over the state figures because we are finally getting to see who funded the November 2014 election campaign. The Liberals certainly received plenty of support from property developers who benefitted from the permissive approach of then-planning minister and now Opposition Leader Matthew Guy.”
The attitude of Jamie Hyams that the community didn’t need to be consulted about the application of the new residential zones really really annoys me. The original consultation was inadequate, with council itself admitting fewer than 2% of the municipality had a say. It has failed to do much that it said it would do. Key objectives are not being met, and strategies remain unimplemented. The scale and bulk of development now guaranteed a permit in RGZ isn’t documented anywhere.
It is 14 years since the publication of Housing And Residential Development Strategy parts A and B. Part C curiously is missing, yet purportedly contains the data and results from the limited consultation done back then. So much is obsolete but still Council clings to the fiction that all is well. Given it is an election year, it is very unlikely the repeatedly deferred review of the Scheme will be done publicly.
February 2, 2016 at 6:00 PM
In response to your reference to Elliott Ave, Carnegie, we are now 6 houses left out of 20! Another 140 apartments over 3 separate developments have now gone in Elliott Ave, between Neerim Rd and Jersey Pde The process is long, drawn out, disruptive and distressing with the never ending objections, meetings, Council rejections of the plans ( often with inexplicable reasons) and final decisions pending, resulting in the “go ahead” from VCAT with minor modifications. Through the demolition process and construction phase, we face months and months of disruption often with road blockages, electricity cuts and constant noise and dirt. We love living here and believe in housing diversity and mixed living environments, whether it be houses, apartments, 2 storey town houses etc however we see very little evidence that the Council is concerned about the welfare of those residents who want to stay and live in their houses and not sell to developers for the alluring dollar.