Apartments built in new activity centres risk being too dark and too small as the state government charges ahead with housing but stalls updates to minimum design standards.
The state government’s “growth centre” strategy is being implemented back to front. Under their plan,Melbourne will be totally reformed,but entirely unimagined.
The repeated failure of the building watchdog to do its job has traumatised and ruined families.
Mining companies,unions and other groups with skin in the game are trying to sway the election amid new funding laws.
The government is opening up Melbourne greenfields sites to build up to 180,000 homes and will release land around two major suburban train stations.
There is a huge gap between the Victorian government’s aspiration to build thousands of “well-located” apartments in established suburbs and the reality of delivering them.
The $591.5 million mixed-use tower would include 265 hotel suites,279 build-to-rent apartments,offices,and ground floor retail outlets.
Developers have welcomed the Allan government’s stamp duty concession but say Melbourne apartment values must rise or projects will remain financially unviable.
Why would you choose Brighton to announce 20-storey towers across a range of suburbs? Perhaps because residents will be dismissed as just a bunch of “Karens” spouting NIMBYism?
Until now,the Andrews and Allan governments have talked a good game on housing. Now those words are finally being backed by action.
Premier Jacinta Allan says she wants to be a “builder” as her bold move to reshape Melbourne’s housing landscape sparks a swift backlash from political rivals on all sides.