PS: Adding insult to injury, a new application for 18 storeys has come in for 9-13 Derby Road, Caulfield East. The proposal is for 158 student units, plus shops and underground parking – and of course adjacent to a Heritage Overlay. This comes on top of the 127 student units in Dudley Street, which remains zoned as Neighbourhood Residential. Such examples are the consequences of negligent planning by council for the past 15 years! However 18 storeys will fit in perfectly with the MRC development of at least 22 storeys near by. Monash, as far as we know, is still planning for around 1200 student accommodation places at Caulfield.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released its building approval figures for the current financial year – ie from July 1st to November 30th. The table below mainly highlights the results for the metropolitan area, plus all those municipalities which exceed the number occurring in Glen Eira. Readers should note that:
- The size of the municipalities which have experienced a greater building boom and the impact this would have on overall density
- The number of houses compared to units in most of these municipalities
- Also worth considering is that Moreland has 576 hectares of open space; Moonee Valley has 528 hectares and poor old Glen Eira 172.9 hectares according to the 2014 Open Space Strategy!
Conclusion? Glen Eira continues to be a developers’ paradise and at this rate will become the most dense municipality in the state (outside of Melbourne) and available open space per head of population will continue to shrink.
The complete Excel data sheet is uploaded HERE
Glen Eira Debates 
January 27, 2017 at 12:04 PM
Hi,
Thanks for this information. I had a look at the ABS excel spreadsheet and it seems to only be to end of October and hence does not marry up the figures in your post (which are to the end of November). Have you got the original source for the figures below or how have these been calculated?
Cheers,
January 27, 2017 at 12:11 PM
Apologies – we’ve uploaded the wrong spread sheet so thanks for pointing this out. The figures are up to November. We will upload the correct file.
January 27, 2017 at 1:38 PM
Windfall in rates for council. No reason to cut back on the zones then. Must keep the dough rolling in.
January 27, 2017 at 5:49 PM
There isn’t any down turn in Glen Eira. A previous post showed another 2000 planning applications coming in. These building approvals are already signed and delivered so most would be near completion. If we’re getting nearly 900 in 5 months then that’s close to 2000 and maybe more per year.
Council has done nothing to attempt to rein this in. They grab the money and fritter it away.
January 28, 2017 at 9:16 AM
I would like to see a lot more money spent on drains and keeping them up to scratch.
January 28, 2017 at 9:37 AM
Objector your absolutely right about frittering the money way, that 300,000 spent on that open space area within the Carnegie shopping strip, looked little different than it did before the work. The very recent desecration of Glen Huntly Road frontage of the historical Hopetoun Gardens, I shudder at the price of that seemly unnecessary work.
January 28, 2017 at 10:31 PM
That job surrounding the guns in Glenhuntly Rd was a typical Council project for all to see. Heaps of people working very slowly and taking months. Anything done for the council costs twice as much and takes twice as long than normal commercial work. The favoured companies are on a gravy train and they know it.
January 28, 2017 at 6:29 PM
Would love to kmow how many are going up in grz