APARTMENT OWNERS MIGHT HAVE TO PAY FOR CLADDING REMOVAL Manningham is among several Melbourne councils who have been asked to identify apartment buildings with flammable cladding, particularly those less than 25 metres (up to 8 storeys) high where there is no legal requirement to install a sprinkler system. This follows inspections previously conducted by the […]
SEWAGE PLANT WILL PROCEED DESPITE LAND BAN
Yarra Valley Water appears set to compulsory acquire council land to construct a Sewer Treatment Plant for the purpose of supplying water extracted from the main sewer line to all new dwellings on Doncaster Hill. This comes after the Manningham Council had refused to issue a building permit and resolved that it would not lease […]
COUNCIL MUST BACK CEO PROMISE ON COVENANTS
“Support for covenant removal ONLY within the Doncaster Hill precinct” Council pledge to ninety beneficiaries Advice On Restrictive Covenants “This latter piece of the advice is totally consistent with previous officer advic relating to […]
MANNINGHAM PART OF SIX IN MELBOURNE’S EAST?
Manningham annual rates were among the highest in the state because it depended almost entirely on them for its survival during the nineties and had come very close to being carved up among adjoining municipalities, as part of the government’s amalgamation plan, before it agreed to build a high-rise activity centre as part of the Melbourne […]
HIGH RISE APARTMENT FEAR AFTER LONDON FIRE
Australian buildings are cloaked in “millions of square metres” of flammable cladding, and authorities have been aware of the safety threat since at least 2010. In the aftermath of London’s apartment tower fire, the AGE newspaper revealed the BCA’S Board were told seven years ago. “ONE SQUARE METRE OF CLADDING SAME ENERGY AS FIVE LITRES OF PETROL” Thousands of […]
SAVING OF BACKYARDS AND BOOSTING LIVABILITY?
Garden Area Or Open Space? What Is The Difference? “An uncovered outdoor area of a dwelling or residential building normally associated with a garden. It includes open entertaining areas, decks, lawns, garden beds, swimming pools, tennis courts and the like. It does not include a driveway, any area set aside for car parking, any building […]
YVCC REDEVELOPMENT FOR DOWNSIZERS+LOCALS
LUXURY THREE BEDROOM TOWNHOUSES ALONG THE YARRA RIVER Link Solutions executive director, Charles Pick, has taken the opportunity to inform our group about their redevelopment proposal at Yarra Valley Country Club (YVCC) in Bulleen, which is over 67 acres in size. The proposal has recently been supported by the City of Manningham to be referred […]
N.E. LINK MEANS MORE CARS….LESS TRAIN TRAVEL
NORTH EAST LINK TO SHIFT 25 K RAIL PASSENGERS A DAY TO CARS “The project would contribute to an increase in car trips and reduction in public transport trips across the network. Because of the location of the project, it competes most directly with sections of the rail network, principally the Hurstbridge, Mernda, Upfield and […]
NEW ZONES COULD REDUCE SIDE STREET DENSITY
Given the form of multi unit development already established in the area and the costs associated with the acquisition of three sites to enable apartments, it is likely that most redevelopment in the DDO8 area will be two storey townhouse developments in courts and side streets off main roads. The Reformed Residential Zones will mean the […]
ALL DAY PARKING FOR CONSTRUCTION VEHICLES
If Manningham is genuinely concerned about relieving the pressure on the 400 parking spaces available at the Park and Ride facility, which also caters for City bound commuters from neighbouring Boroondara area, it must provide alternative areas for long stay parking. One method could be to allow long stay parking in side streets adjacent to […]
