Building design, drafting and planning permits in Oakleigh — a Major Activity Centre with an interwar heritage precinct wrapped around it.
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.
Oakleigh grew as its own city — proclaimed in 1927 — and the housing reflects that. A Victorian and Edwardian civic core around Drummond Street, then substantial interwar Californian bungalow and villa stock through the surrounding streets, with postwar brick veneer infill further out.
Oakleigh is a Major Activity Centre. The Oakleigh Structure Plan was adopted in 2012 and implemented through Amendment C93, gazetted in March 2013, which applied local policy and a Design and Development Overlay across the commercial core and adjoining residential land. Council has since been reviewing the activity centre program covering Oakleigh, Hughesdale and Holmesglen — so treat the controls as live rather than settled.
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 designed and delivered Dalgety in Oakleigh — 26 apartments plus two penthouses, Art Deco lineage reinterpreted for contemporary living. See our projects.
Heritage-sensitive extensions to interwar bungalows inside HO92; medium-density townhouse and apartment infill within the DDO area; knockdown rebuilds on lots outside the overlays; shopfront work in the activity centre.
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.
Clayton 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.
View suburb → — Frankston City CouncilCarrum Downs was farmland until the 1980s.
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