The government has today gazetted Amendment C285 which includes the final planning rules for our activity centres and surrounds. This post concentrates on these surrounds and what has changed. Areas now zoned HCTZ2 are rezoned to allow 3 storey apartment blocks and HCTZ1 four storeys and up to 6 on large sites over 1000 square metres. Heritage in these areas is largely ignored and they are in both HCTZ zones. The following gazetted map clearly outlines what has up to now largely been NRZ is finally gone!
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PS: Here’s a media release from Liveable Victoria. Nothing yet from Glen Eira!!!!
Glen Eira Debates 
July 22, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Wow and council calls this good advocacy I’ll bet. We have always had a piss weak council when it comes to standing up for residents.
July 23, 2026 at 12:04 PM
I’m staggered that most heights remain discretionary throughout Glen Eira. Developers can do what they like. No respect for heritage or amenity.
July 23, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Billions of dollars for their bikie mates, nothing for teachers.
Do-over the community neighbourhoods. Would I be wrong to think we are being stoodover by a bunch of low class crims?.
July 23, 2026 at 12:45 PM
These comments have been said before, but I believe they carry greater weight now. Rezoning sites from 2 to 3 storeys, and 2 to up to 4 in HCTZ1 gives far more scope to developers. I doubt that many will erect three storey townhouses. They will build apartment blocks. There’s definitely more money to be made from a block of 12 to 20 apartments of around $500,000 – to $800,000, than a few triple storey townhouses. All of this could happen even on sites named as heritage. The latter means nothing to developers and/or council and the government.
July 24, 2026 at 8:50 AM
It’s all in decline. People cannot afford to buy what’s being built, and much of what is being constructed, particularly apartments, is of such poor quality that banks are wisely not goind to lend against it. Buyers and their lender will fall into negative equity as soon as the contract is signed.
All these desperate measures by the struggling Allan Government are unlikely to pull a rabbit out of the hat.
This is what unsustainable development looks like.
The developer-driven privatisation model is broken. It has reached the point where the system is beginning to consume itself. The age of economic cannibalism has begun.
Full points to GED’s its been ringing the alarm bells for decades.