How do the new planning requirements effect your CBD or Southbank Project?

The Victoria Government gazetted new interim planning controls for the CBD and parts of Southbank, the re-introduction of its plot ratios. 

Midday on Saturday, a media release was distributed stating that the City of Melbourne has been made a referral authority, after the council signed a MOU with the Victorian Government. 

Source: Urban Melbourne

The Government Gazette from Friday night states that the City of Melbourne Planning Scheme has been amended with the following:
 

• Buildings up to or equal to 100 metres in height will require a tower setback of minimum five metres to all boundaries or from the centre of a laneway above the podium.
   

• Buildings above 100 metres in height will require tower setbacks to be the equivalent of five per cent of the building's overall height, and likewise these tower setbacks will be required to all boundaries or from the centre of a laneway above the podium height.
   

• A plot ratio requirement of 24:1 has been added.

2016 is set to be an event busier year in the planning world for Central Melbourne. Fishermans Bend's review and now the CBD and Southbank's own planning review are set to be completed and published.

To learn more visit Urban Melbourne - Interim Central Melbourne Planning Controls