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Location
Former brickworks on Stud Road Wantirna South [Melway reference 72 J3]

Scope
Large scale 'brown field' redevelopment (56 hectares site) for residential and commercial purposes.

Collie Role
Development planning including preparation of a planning scheme amendment, a development plan, planning permit applications and building envelope plans, and facilitation of planning approvals.

Key Challenge
Establishing a good working relationship with Knox City Council and ensuring that the development model met the expectations of all parties.

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Harcrest

Before the sale of the former brickworks site, Austral Bricks in conjunction with the City of Knox had prepared and exhibited a planning scheme amendment specifying that:

• the majority of the site be Residential 1 Zone;
• an area be set aside for Mixed Use Zone, intended for use as a local shopping centre;
• an environment audit overlay be applied to the site;
• a development plan overlay be applied to the site;
• an 'urban planning guidelines' document to guide future development be incorporated in the planning scheme.

Austral Bricks and the City of Knox undertook community consultation associated with the planning scheme amendment, including presentation of the 'urban planning guidelines'.

Mirvac was chosen as the preferred purchaser of the site.

The Project

Collie was appointed by Mirvac to provide specialist development planning advice as to how best negotiate the planning system and how to have the amendment appropriately restructured to suit the preferred Mirvac development model. Collie recommended changes to the initial amendment, in particular the status and content of the 'urban planning guidelines' and content of the schedule to the development plan overlay, which were subsequently approved. Collie then assisted Mirvac in obtaining a planning permit for bulk earthworks on the site and prepared an additional planning scheme amendment to relocate the mixed use zone and to increase the amount of floor space.

Development Plan

Collie was then appointed by Mirvac to prepare a development plan for the site. Collie provided advice to Mirvac regarding other specialist reports that were required to form part of the development plan and assisted with the finalisation of these reports for inclusion with the final documentation. Community consultation and liaison with Councillors and Council officers formed an integral part of the development plan preparation. In summary the development plan provides for:

• up to 1000 new dwellings;
• a local shopping centre with a range of commercial uses and up to 1000 square metres of shop floor space;
• development embracing a landscape and public open space 'spine' created by a horseshoe - shaped main access road running through the site.

The development plan addresses a number of key concerns including:

• the management of Stud Road traffic noise through a built form approach;
• appropriate responses to residential interfaces along some boundaries of the site;
• utilising potential views to the Dandenong Ranges;
• the appropriate distributions of public open space;
• introduction of potential future built form outcomes for the site;
• appropriate management of storm water.

Planning Permit Applications

Working with Mirvac and following detailed discussions with Knox City Council about the preferred planning approach for the site, Collie submitted planning permit applications for:

• the subdivision of stages 1, 2 and 3 (to date);
• multiple medium density housing sites;
• development and use of the local shopping centre.

Building Envelope Plans

Collie has worked closely with Mirvac to prepare building envelope plans and a related Memorandum of Common Provisions (MCP). The MCPs will assist Mirvac and Council to control the nature and appearance of future residential development on the site, providing certainty to future lot purchasers and ensuring a high quality urban outcome.

Approvals

The development plan was approved in 2010, as were the planning permits for subdivision of stages 1, 2 and 3 and the initial planning permits for the medium density housing sites.