Building design, drafting and planning permits in Glen Waverley — where a Suburban Rail Loop precinct is rewriting controls that were only settled in 2018.
Your council is Monash City Council. That is the scheme your permit is assessed against — see what planning permits look like in Monash City Council.
The railway reached Glen Waverley in 1930, but the suburb stayed rural — market gardens and orchards — until the 1950s. The Housing Commission had acquired land for two thousand houses by 1950, and growth ran hard through the 1950s to 70s, generally as good-quality housing on large blocks around 800 square metres. Kingsway shopping centre opened in 1967. Those big postwar lots are why this suburb turns over the way it does.
The Glen Waverley Activity Centre Masterplan came in 2013, followed by the Principal Activity Centre Structure Plan in September 2014 and implemented through Amendment C120, gazetted in January 2018. That regime is now being overtaken: Glen Waverley is a Suburban Rail Loop East precinct, and the SRL Authority ran a draft structure plan and draft Amendment C177mona through consultation in 2025, with a standing advisory committee hearing it later that year. Confirm its current status before relying on the 2018 controls — this is the fastest-moving planning environment on our list.
Check what sits over your own title in two minutes, free: search your address on the Victorian Government's planning property report. Send it to us and we can usually tell you whether a permit is likely from one conversation.
We have worked here. We work across the City of Monash — Dalgety in Oakleigh, Koonawarra in Clayton and The Huntingdale are all under this scheme. See our projects.
Dual occupancy and townhouse redevelopment on 800m² postwar blocks; knockdown rebuilds of 1950s–70s housing; VPO-constrained tree removal; mid and high-rise mixed use in the activity centre core.
Whatever the type, the documentation is the same discipline: architectural drafting drawn to be built, town planning drawings council can assess first time, and working drawings a builder can price without padding.
Planning controls change — amendments are gazetted regularly. Everything above was accurate at the time of writing, but confirm current controls for your specific address before relying on them.
Send us the address and the planning property report and we will tell you what applies — before you commit to anything. Get in touch, or see everywhere else we work.
Every suburb has its own controls. These are the ones where we have projects on the ground.
Oakleigh grew as its own city — proclaimed in 1927 — and the housing reflects that.
View suburb → — Monash City CouncilClayton is overwhelmingly postwar.
View suburb → — Monash City CouncilHuntingdale is small — under a square kilometre — and was originally East Oakleigh, built up in the early 1900s as Oakleigh spread.
View suburb → — City of WhitehorseTwo Box Hills, really.
View suburb → — City of Whitehorse and City of MonashInterwar bungalow pockets from the 1920s and 30s, then substantial postwar brick veneer along the Burwood Highway corridor toward Bennettswood, following the 1912 Toorak Road tram extension.
View suburb → — Glen Eira City CouncilBentleigh is an interwar suburb, and unusually intact.
View suburb → — City of KingstonKingston's draft Heritage Review identifies Mentone — with Mordialloc and Parkdale — as holding some of the best remaining examples of Victorian and Federation period homes in the municipality.
View suburb → — City of KingstonChelsea started as DIY holiday shacks thrown up by beachgoers from the 1920s, and it was not sewered until 1965.
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