Despite all prognostications that the so called ‘building boom’ is abating, applications in Glen Eira are continuing to flood in. The list below is a selection of some that have landed on council’s desk within the past few months. We have not included the multitude of 2 double storeys, or in some cases, even an application for 3 double storeys. All of these are still to be decided or even advertised.
We urge readers to carefully note:
- The zoning and area for each application (in parenthesis)
- The failure to disclose the number of proposed apartments for some of the following listings
- The question as to why the two bolded applications are even being considered given that they exceed the zoning requirements (ie Bent St & Hawthorn Road). Are we about to see underground apartments or does the land really slope that much?
- What does this say about council’s planning scheme and its ‘heirarchy’ for development, when the vast majority of these dwellings are in neighbourhood centres and NOT the major activity zones of Bentleigh, Elsternwick, Carnegie?
- The amount of development in General Residential Zone, rather then the commercial/mixed use zoning.
- The size of the land and the proposed number of dwellings. So much for permeability, site coverage, and impact on infrastructure!
17 Arawatta Street CARNEGIE – Construction of a 10 storey apartment building consisting of 42 apartments with 2 level basement parking (MUZ, ~ 580SQM)
35 -37 Kokaribb Road CARNEGIE – Construction of five (5) three storey attached dwellings and waiver of visitor car parking (RGZ1, 830 sqm)
2 – 4 Blair Street BENTLEIGH – Construction for four (4) storey apartment building comprising of 24 dwellings, car parking and landscaping (RGZ1 – 1491 SQM)
16 – 18 Hamilton Street BENTLEIGH – Construct a 4 storey apartment building and reduce the visitor car parking requirement (RGZ1 – 1366sqm)
16 South Avenue BENTLEIGH – Construction of eight (8) three storey townhouses with basement car parking (GRZ1 – 878 sqm)
1032A & 1032 North Road BENTLEIGH EAST – Use and development of the land for ground floor shops and apartment dwellings with a reduction in car parking (C1Z – 540sqm)
26 Ardyne Street MURRUMBEENA – Construction of five (5) double storey dwellings and a waiver of the statutory visitor parking requirement, on land affected by the Special Building Overlay.(GRZ2 – 650 sqm)
12 – 14 Howe Street MURRUMBEENA – Construction of eleven dwellings (GRZ2 – 1515sqm)
6 Rosella Street MURRUMBEENA – 4 double storeys (GRZ1 – 776sqm)
30 – 32 Prince Edward Avenue MCKINNON – Multi-unit residential development (GRZ1 – 1366sqm)
9 Prince Edward Avenue MCKINNON – Construction of a three storey building comprising four dwellings (GRZ1 – 710sqm)
134-138 McKinnon Road MCKINNON – Construction of an apartment building comprising twenty-one (21) dwellings and a reduction in car parking (GRZ1 – 1157sqm)
2 Adelaide Street MCKINNON – Construction of 4 double storey dwellings (GRZ2 – 657sqm)
9 Station Avenue MCKINNON – Development of eight(8) dwellings and buildings/works in a special building overlay (GRZ1 – 880 sqm)
219 Tucker Road MCKINNON – Construction of 5-storey apartment building (7 units) with basement car parking (C1Z – 225 sqm)
532 North Road ORMOND – Mixed use development, reduction in visitor car parking requirement (MUZ – 229 sqm)
296 Grange Road ORMOND – Construction of a three storey building with basement level, request for reduction of car parking requirements and alteration of an access to a Road Zone, Category 1 (GRZ1 – 901 sqm)
22 Cadby Avenue ORMOND – Construction of four (4) three storey attached dwellings above basement car park (GRZ1 – 713 sqm)
12 Wheeler Street ORMOND – Construction of four (4) three storey dwellings and two (2) double storey dwellings (total six dwellings) on land affected by the Special Building Overlay (GRZ1 – 764 sqm)
19 Wheeler Street ORMOND – Construction of eight (8) two storey dwellings with associated basement car parking and roof terraces for two (2) of the dwellings (GRZ1 – 706 sqm)
6 Wheeler Street ORMOND – Construction of three three-storey dwellings (GRZ1 – 778 sqm)
245 Grange Road ORMOND – Construction of three (3) three storey and four (4) double storey attached dwellings (total 7 dwellings) on land adjacent to a road in a Road Zone Category 1 (GRZ1 – 868 sqm)
813-815 Glen Huntly Road CAULFIELD – Construction of a five storey building comprising shop and nine (9) dwellings, reduction in car parking requirements for visitors and the shop and waiver of loading bay requirements (C1Z – 625 sqm)
777 Glen Huntly Road CAULFIELD – Construction of multi-residential and shops (C1Z – 327 sqm)
270 Hawthorn Road CAULFIELD – Construction of a three storey building comprising 9 dwellings and altering access to a Road Zone Category 1 (GRZ2 – 798 sqm)
102 & 102A Balaclava Road CAULFIELD NORTH – Development of eight (8) dwellings and alterations to a road in a road zone category 1(GRZ2 – 993 sqm)
10 Princes Street CAULFIELD NORTH – Construction of residential building comprising of sixteen (16) dwellings (GRZ2 – 1215sqm)
14 Hawthorn Road CAULFIELD NORTH – o construct a four storey building comprising 21 dwellings, reduce the car parking requirement and create or alter access to a Road Zone Category One.(GRZ2 – 866 sqm)
1046 Glen Huntly Road CAULFIELD SOUTH – Construct eight (8) dwellings on a lot within a general residential zone, pursuant to clause 32.08-4 (GRZ2 – 466 sqm)
17-19 Bent Street CAULFIELD SOUTH – Construction of 14 dwellings within two double-storey buildings and waiver of the visitor car parking requirement (NRZ1 – 1087 sqm)
1 – 3 Horne Street ELSTERNWICK – The use and development of the land for dwellings, reduction in the car parking requirements of clause 52.06 and a waiver of the loading requirements of clause 52.07 (C1Z – 630 sqm)
17 Ross Street ELSTERNWICK VIC 318 – Construction of 2 three-storey attached dwellings (RGZ1 – 305 sqm)
January 5, 2017 at 10:14 AM
I cannot believe the number of apartments they are trying to get onto land the size of a handkerchief. The last one especially. Two three storeys where you have trouble even fitting one on. Council will cry and cry and refuse and they will end up at vcat where they will get their permit because of the planning scheme and the system itself.Even if they don’t get past vcat most will come back for a second bite of the cherry and instead of 21 apartments they will get 20 apartments.
January 5, 2017 at 11:06 AM
And the planes full of renters keep on arriving week in week out, profit drives this unsustainable growth model.
January 5, 2017 at 11:19 AM
Ya can kiss goodby to south av, adelaide street an wheeler.
January 5, 2017 at 2:07 PM
Just in case it’s not obvious, Bentleigh, Elsternwick and Carnegie are not major activity zones. They do however contain within them “Urban Villages”. At least in Carnegie there is a substantial pipeline of projects with permits granted in its Urban Village already, so not surprising if temporarily new applications drop off due to oversupply. MUZ is a residential zone and I note that 17 Arawatta St abuts RGZ. It should in principle struggle to get a permit for 10 storeys if it wasn’t for being in Glen Eira. Interesting that council officers are stating that they don’t have the resources to manage the development activity—would have thought that’d be worth a Council report. Still no sign of Part C of Council’s 2002 Housing and Residential Development Strategy being published, the existence of which Matthew Guy used as his excuse for exercising his S20(4) power. Stunning silence from State Government in response to the MRDAC report too. Is there anything they haven’t ballsed up?
January 5, 2017 at 2:28 PM
Then there’s the rooming house investments where up to 16 residents stay up to 3 in THE GARAGE, NO REGULATIONS REGARDING CAR PARKING OR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES AS “THE PERMIT SAYS PARKING ON THE STREET” and an absolute “intolerable understanding or compliance” with the rubbish from these back-packers who may have just arrived from Paris and I’m told council does not oblige them to have more than one rubbish bin, so for one reason or another, often disinterest in the neighbourhood which one is only a temporary resident anyway, then the bins are usually open. I learn of the overflow in my driveway, Indian minahs , ravens, feeding on the excess bread there in the driveway, egg shells in the gutter, once I saw a rodent up close and a;so the wasps come. Our council thinks this is ok. Who is going to pay for the pest man to come and remove the rats from my ceiling before they eat the electric wire insulation.
January 5, 2017 at 9:45 PM
anyone know if splashland will be in the Guineas car park or the middle of the racecourse http://www.splashland.com.au/caulfield-racecourse-venue-map/
January 5, 2017 at 10:03 PM
Parking is stated as: “Caulfield Racecourse Maple Car Park
Enter via Gate 2, Station Street” – http://www.splashland.com.au/on-site-facilities/
January 6, 2017 at 12:00 PM
Lack of structure plans keeps coming up. Dicky Wynne has repeatedly berated Councils for their failure to do strategic planning [which covers preparation of structure plans in support of height limits]. Government can’t dodge all responsibility though—they’re responsible for the mess that they call the Planning System, but are too busy blowing our money on speculative High Court challenges in the hope of avoiding scrutiny of their behaviour.
BTW just what does “encourage development that responds to the existing or preferred neighbourhood character of the area” mean to the average resident as compared to Council, VCAT, and State Government? How different are all these interpretations of something so vague?