Hospitals,homes and hoons:Everything you need to know about ‘Dump Day’ 2024

Hospitals,homes and hoons:Everything you need to know about ‘Dump Day’ 2024

More than a quarter of Victoria’s emergency patients are not being treated within the recommended time frames.

  • byBroede Carmody,Rachel Eddie,Kieran Rooney andPatrick Hatch

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Here’s where all Melbourne’s unlocked greenfield land will be (if the government picks up the pace)

Here’s where all Melbourne’s unlocked greenfield land will be (if the government picks up the pace)

Large swaths of land on Melbourne’s fringe will be released for development within 10 years,but experts say that may actually push prices up.

  • byAdam Carey
The inner-city site about to get 800 new homes

The inner-city site about to get 800 new homes

The Allan government is ramping up attacks on progressive parties across the inner-city,as it announces an 800-unit development in the inner north today.

  • byKieran Rooney andAdam Carey
Homes v habitat:The fight to save a forest amid a population boom

Homes v habitat:The fight to save a forest amid a population boom

Campaigners want to save south-east Queensland’s Woogaroo forest for koalas;developers want the land for desperately needed housing. Something has to give.

  • byCourtney Kruk
45-storey apartments in Gordon? Ku-ring-gai Council has one big problem

45-storey apartments in Gordon? Ku-ring-gai Council has one big problem

Several of the sites slated for high-rise development by council staff to avoid developing other parts of the suburb are in fact heritage-listed themselves.

  • byAnthony Segaert
The plan to squeeze 45-storey apartment buildings into Ku-ring-gai

The plan to squeeze 45-storey apartment buildings into Ku-ring-gai

Ku-ring-gai councillors resisted the government’s plans for high-density apartments. Now their staff have come up with their own plans.

  • byAnthony Segaert,Megan Gorrey andDaniel Lo Surdo
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Where Melbourne’s next 25 activity centres should go,according to one group
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Where Melbourne’s next 25 activity centres should go,according to one group

An analysis of suburbs by YIMBY Melbourne has revealed which 25 train stations should be declared activity centres next.

  • byKieran Rooney andRachel Eddie
London calling:UK capital offers lessons for Melbourne’s housing woes

London calling:UK capital offers lessons for Melbourne’s housing woes

London has become the touchstone for Labor as it plans for a bigger and more densely populated Melbourne.

  • byAdam Carey
Grand designs:The types of homes the Victorian government wants to see more of
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Grand designs:The types of homes the Victorian government wants to see more of

The government would take over planning powers for townhouses and apartments between three and six storeys that are high-quality design,and would hand over some state land to do it.

  • byRachel Eddie
Almost 1000 Brisbane properties to be removed from council flood maps

Almost 1000 Brisbane properties to be removed from council flood maps

More than 8000 properties will be reclassified on the flood maps – with hundreds to be removed altogether – in changes set to influence future development.

  • bySean Parnell
Allan vows to make it easier to build two homes on one lot

Allan vows to make it easier to build two homes on one lot

The premier wants to speed up subdivisions and the construction of townhouses under a significant planning reform.

  • byKieran Rooney