The above graph featuring today’s release of ABS building permits for Local Government Areas still shows Glen Eira leading the way. When the 80 square km of Monash is taken into account, compared to the 38.9 square km that is Glen Eira, then the impact on overall density is obvious. Further compounding the problem is that in Glen Eira permits for single houses only reached 269 whereas Monash had 580 – more than double going into Glen Eira!
Even more astounding is that the total number of permits since the 2011/12 financial year is as follows for the various municipalities –
Glen Eira – 11,049
Bayside – 6,527
Boroondara – 9.905
Kingston – 7,785
Stonnington – 10,176
Port Phillip – 8,144
Monash – 11,072
Thus in just on 7 years, and excluding the number of single houses from the overall total, Glen Eira has had an average of 1,271 net new dwellings granted building permits. This far exceeds the needs of population growth and given what is in the pipe line via East Village, Caulfield Village and council’s desire for 12 storeys in Carnegie and Elsternwick, then developers must indeed be rubbing their hands with glee.
We’ve uploaded the ABS data HERE
Glen Eira Debates 
July 10, 2018 at 1:02 PM
It can only be assumed that if the developers are rubbing their hands with glee then so are some of the Councillors. It says a lot that Council have not acknowledged these statistics in any way.
July 11, 2018 at 10:56 AM
Councillors ain’t got a clue. They do what they’re told. Ya reckon they’ve even bothered to read half the stuff no way.
July 10, 2018 at 2:05 PM
Monash aside, we’ve doubled some of these councils. Okay, land might be dearer in Bayside but it certainly isn’t in Kingston, Port Phillip and lots of places in Boroondara. For me that means that developers know they can come in and do what they like in Glen Eira and the planning scheme lets them. That’s probably not so in these other areas. Great job councillors who have let this happen and continue to let it happen.
July 10, 2018 at 2:41 PM
Plan Melbourne has lumped Glen Eira together with Bayside, Boroondara and Stonnington. On these numbers we’ve tripled Boroondara and nearly tripled Stonnington and then doubled Bayside. Not bad for a council that keeps crying about how much it cares about heritage and neighbourhood character. 12 storeys should do heaps for our neighbourhood character.
July 10, 2018 at 2:52 PM
The Excel data is fascinating. Glen Eira is way up on development compared to every other local government area. Those that have heaps more and in the range of 4000-5000 are all outer ones and they are building houses and not ugly apartment blocks. There’s Casey with 4978 permits and 4343 houses of that total. Same is happening in Hume with 3383 and houses totalling 3004. Glen Eira is way ahead of the western suburbs too. Cbd is winning hands down though.