Just keeping an eye on how the apartments and houses are traveling in Manningham – follow the link below for the latest, and check your own suburb. Approved developments in DDO8 usually require a large number of units presold, before building can begin.. Excerpt below from the attached data is hardly encouraging for apartment investors.
Eastern Golf Course Residential Redevelopment Amendment C101
Susie has been monitoring this one for us, there’s going to be a lot of traffic on it soon You can see from the extensive list of changes below that the councilors are challenging the planning departments reports… A very good thing we think. At the Council meeting on 27 August 2013, a report recommending […]
Adverse Possession – Old surveyors were not perfect
Recently a friend of mine told me of a battle beig fought over a several inches of soil between two neighbors. One building a new house was told by the builders that the fence was in the wrong place, and had to be moved a foot over to match the plans. It turns out each […]
OVERDEVELOPMENT STILL POSSIBLE ON SMALLER SITES – after C96
How safe do you think side streets are from over development? Manningham Council’s decision not to insert a condition prescribing a limit of two storey development on smaller sites, in the revised table 1 to schedule 8 document, has created a great deal of uncertainty. Whilst the Municipal Strategic Statement (MSS) has indicated that “high […]
Interest in Units on the Rise – not so much appartments.
This Leader article backs up our recent articles around the lack of appartment progress in Manningham. The attached leader article reports comments from leading Doncaster real estate agent. Notably that “people do not want to compromise their home but do not want a quarter acre block”, which might explain why units (villa or town houses), […]
APPROPRIATENESS OF MANNINGHAM’S HIGH DENSITY STRATEGY IS QUESTIONED AS DEMAND FOR APARTMENT LIVING DECLINES
“Sandman Oz” shares some thoughts on why Highrise hasn’t ever moved in Manningham… Speculative permits, risks associated with purchasing off the plan, lack of a fixed rail infrastructure, lack of public off street parking and difficult terrain are among the factors contributing to a low demand that has stymied the progress of high density apartment […]
Manningham Council Website (HOUSEHOLDS) and ABS
These percentages suggest that the Doncaster Hill and DDO8 apartment strategies are simply not working… Population The 2011 Census Estimated Resident Population of Manningham was 116,958, an increase of 1.6% from 2006 Doncaster, which include Doncaster Hill and much of DDO8, was only1.52% in the 5 year period compared to a national growth of 1.8% […]
How Long Should We Wait – Action 2.3: Review cul de sacs and side streets within sub-precinct A of DDO8 – Council Agenda 28 May 2013
If you ask an important question of your council how long is it fair to wait ? One seasoned and concerned rate payer wanted to share this.. ++++ Original Request as sent by email +++ Now a month old… no council answers yet. Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 12:27 PM Subject: Action 2.3: Review cul […]
Manningham East are the 3rd highest car users
Does Manningham need Public Transport ? In 2002 Manningham council as part of thier Doncaster Hill Strategy were planning to reduce car reliance in Manningham… Car use has mushroomed since the figures below were released back in October 2007. The chart below showed; Manningham East and surrounding areas as third behind Mornington Peninsular and Geelong […]
Changed Provisions Of DDO8 – Recognition of Small sites
189-191 Foote Street, Templestowe. Council are planning to reject this proposal because it does not meet the minimum land area of 1800sqm for a three storey development. This will apply to all developments in Precinct A. Unfortunately this welcome change in direction cannot be applied in retrospect to the Queens Avenue and Talford Street proposals. […]
