The table below features data from the Planning Permit Activity government website. The numbers are for the past financial year and reveal the quarter by quarter number of permits granted for NET NEW DWELLINGS – ie not houses replacing houses, but the increase in dwellings per application. These are also not building permits and the vast majority of these new dwellings would not as yet have been granted their building rights.
We’ve listed neighbouring councils and those that Plan Melbourne has now designated as belonging to the same group – ie Bayside, Stonnington, Boroondara and Glen Eira.
Source: https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/publications/planning-permit-activity-in-victoria
PS: We’ve made an error. The Boroondara total should be 1077 and the Port Phillip one should be 2049! Apologies.
Glen Eira Debates 
July 19, 2017 at 1:17 PM
This is getting ridiculous. Another 1890 apartments in the pipeline for the next few years and council still wants more and more. I want to know how many will be standing empty and how many will be crappy boxes.
July 19, 2017 at 2:57 PM
The rate of development in Glen Eira is constant if not increasing. The only thing that will stop it is if the bottom falls out of the housing market. In the meantime all council is doing is repeating the spin about meeting population growth. Glen Eira is streaks ahead of what is required according to all the expert panels and numbers coming out of government departments. Council doesn’t seem willing to accept this fact because it would impact on their income is the only reason I can come up with.
July 19, 2017 at 3:36 PM
Didn’t the census show that we’re 8500 people less than predicted? Stop the crazy overdevelopment councillors.
July 19, 2017 at 5:00 PM
A complete sell out of the community by the Council to developers.