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Statutory Planning

The Nexus Apartments

The gentle curve between the buildings recalls the familiar image of a train passing around a bend in the track. The ground level facade references the flow of the railway line as the two buildings appear to slip past one another like two trains in the night.

Glossop Town Planning worked alongside Hachem, Cornetta Partners Architects and the Forte Group to achieve planning approval for this stunning development in Thomastown, including representation at VCAT.

Leveson Place, North Melbourne

Mason Developments and Red Earth Developments approached Glossop Town Planning with an idea for a townhouse complex.

Glossop Town managed the town planning process, liaising on behalf of the clients with Council, engaged and managed other consultants in relation to the project, and provided planning advice along the way.

In order to meet our clients' timelines, an application for review was lodged under section 79 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 due to the failure of Melbourne City Council to make a decision within the statutory timeframe.

Glossop Town Planning represented the client at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, which pleasingly resulted in the granting of a permit to the applicant.

Strategic Planning

Smart Planning

Smart Planning is a reform program to make Victoria’s planning system more efficient and accessible. Over the past 20 years, multiple reviews of the planning system have identified ideas and areas for improvement. Planning needed an overhaul and that is what Smart Planning has been doing. Despite Officer support, the proposal had been refused by Council and had attracted objections from nearby land owners.

Glossop Town Planning was engaged by the Smart Planning team within the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) to develop a code that facilitates small scale secondary dwellings on the same lot as an existing dwelling a residential zone. This code is now known as the Secondary Dwellings Code.

Amendment VC272 to the Stonnington Planning Scheme

In 2016 Council adopted the Hawksburn Village Structure Plan which was prepared in consultation with the local Hawksburn Village community.

Glossop Town Planning was engaged by the City of Stonnington to review Amendment VC272 which sought to introduce the Hawksburn Village Structure Plan to the Stonnington Planning Scheme.

Glossop Town Planning also presented expert evidence at the Panel Hearing for Amendment VC272.

Planning Advocacy & Evidence

441-443 Plenty Road, Preston

John Glossop of Glossop Town Planning was called by Romy Davidov, Principal Lawyer of Best Hooper Lawyers as an expert town planning witness in the matter of R & D Finance Consultants Pty Ltd v Darebin CC [2020] VCAT 892.

Designed by well-known Melbourne architect Youseph Taouk of Taouk Architects, this matter involved a proposal for a four storey building fronting Plenty Road transitioning down to two levels at its rear where it abutted an existing single storey residential property.