Planning
A new identity for the Walk Arcade
The long-mooted redevelopment of the Walk Arcade looks to finally be progressing following the submission of an application to DELWP on February 9 for “alterations, additions (including partial demolition) to existing buildings for the purposes of retail premises, residential hotel and gym”.
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How would your building rate?
The City of Melbourne is partnering with the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) to rate 20 apartment buildings in water and energy use efficiency.
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Listed arcade in the wreckers’ sights
We thought we’d left 2017 on a positive note for Melbourne’s heritage in our previous column, but plans buried in the details for the City South Metro station that came out late in December are one of the biggest threats to a Melbourne heritage interior, and our independent arts culture in quite some time.
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Trouble brewing up north
The City of Melbourne’s Future Melbourne Committee met for its first meeting on February 6 to consider, amongst other things, UK-based student accommodation provider Scape’s plans for a student accommodation tower on the former Carlton United Brewery site.
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CBD heritage under further threat
The Melbourne Metro Tunnel Authority (MMRA) plans to partially demolish the heritage-listed Campbell Arcade as it links Flinders Street Station to its new Town Hall Station.
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Developers take all benefits
Residents of the CBD and Southbank have missed out on a bonanza of new community facilities and open space because Planning Minister Richard Wynne in 2016 decided to reward developers for building commercial office space instead.
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Permit sought for Munro site tower
Welcome to 2018 and what promises to be another big year for planning and construction within the City of Melbourne.
Read MoreReasons to be cheerful
As the end of another year approaches, Melbourne’s heritage arcades are filled with decorations, the art deco Myer windows are displaying their 62nd Christmas windows and Flinders Street Station’s long-awaiting restoration is finally unwrapping itself as a present to all of the city.
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Another big year for CBD planning
What was initially a relatively quiet beginning to 2017 is fast drawing to a close with progress being made on a flurry of projects.
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Are missing floors missing heritage?
These days, more and more heritage activists and city planners are faced with the question of how additions to historic buildings should be managed.
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Privy Council gets it, Andrews doesn’t
Lane closure plan
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