If you have a significant development going on next door, and they do go on for many , many months, how tolerant would you be? Is it Legal for them to crane large items across your property, when they haven’t enough room on their site? NO – but they do… What protective barriers or exclusion […]
Category: Manningham Council
APARTMENT GLUT HINDERS RESALE PROSPECTS
Apartment resale results on Doncaster Hill are unlikely to improve with the neighbouring Box Hill Activity High Rise Centre, with its superior infrastructure including Train, Tram and Bus interchange, a world class public Hospital and Tafe College, now under construction. The lack of infrastructure and the large number now being sold overseas are among the […]
HILL SMART ENERGY PLAN NOW A BLURRED VISION
The Doncaster Hill Vision, “The Jewel In The Crown” of the failed 2030 program, originally hailed as a futuristic 21st century urban precinct with local investors expected to flock to it, is now being bailed out by foreign developers using their overseas intermediaries to sell small apartments. The following propaganda article published in 2009 by […]
TUNSTALL SQUARE FOUR STOREY PLAN OVERDONE
“FOR THE MINDLESS PURPOSE OF PROVIDING EVEN MORE APARTMENTS” Only seven of the fifty three submissions council received from residents, regarding shop-top residential development, were totally in favor of the concept. The majority of submitters did not support increasing building heights to four storeys because the large increase in the number of apartments, up to three […]
FIRB HANDS OFF POLICY ON OVERSEAS INVESTORS
“ALL THAT FIRB HAVE TO DO IS TO REVERT TO THE RULES IN FORCE IN 2007/8” Below is a letter we received from Arnold who preferred to remain anonymous. We bought our property in Richmond in early 2008. I am a British citizen married to a born-and-bred Australian. We bought the house jointly and without […]
DONCASTER HILL PLAGUED BY SMALL APARTMENTS
COUNCIL APPROVING ONE BEDROOM APARTMENTS AS SMALL AS 43 SQM. The high cost of construction and the hefty sums paid for blocks of land on Doncaster Hill are among the factors being blamed for Council allowing developers to skimp on the size of apartments, not to mention the risk factors of falling prices during the long period […]
HOUSE PRICE BOOM AS APARTMENTS GET CHEAPER
INVESTORS WHO KNOW THE LOCAL MARKET WILL NOT BE INTERESTED MAINLY BECAUSE OF THE FALLING APARTMENT RESALE PRICES The latest SQM Research data shows all unit/apartment asking prices in Doncaster 3108 have fallen from a median high of $675,000 in August 2009 to $521,100 in March 2015. These figures […]
DONCASTER HILL BYPASS ROUTE TO BE CHANGED
Manningham Council had planned to create a bypass road through the residential streets south of Doncaster Hill to help ease congestion on Doncaster Road. Hepburn Road was to be extended across Clay Drive through to Tram Road via Frederick and Merlin Streets to carry south bound traffic but it now appears that the extension can […]
TWO STOREY PLUS BASEMENT WALL MAKES THREE
“Framing a policy for a more preferred community outcome, while prescribing regulations you know will enable something entirely different and far less acceptable, is not in good faith”. ……Comment from B.J. An apartment development, currently under construction in East Doncaster, is one of several developments being built that would not be approved today under the […]
PARKING DEARTH A BLIGHT ON DONCASTER HILL
“Cars are everywhere. They take us to work, shop and play. They monopolise our streets and roadways and mould the landscape to their insistent demands” ….Graeme Davison The shortage of off- street parking spaces on Doncaster Hill is proving to be a nightmare. Manningham council, who have limited parking spaces available in its own parking areas on […]