Planning
Minister approves three towers for Queen Victoria Market’s Southern Site
Minister for Planning Sonya Kilkenny has approved permits for long-awaited plans to redevelop Queen Victoria Market’s (QVM) “Southern Site” into three separate towers.
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Design competition launched for QVM’s “Queens Corner Building”
The City of Melbourne will invite designers from across the country to reimagine both Queen Victoria Market’s Queens Corner Building and Southbank’s “red stairs” as part of a “design competition”.
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Council erects pop-up park at Kilkenny Inn site
The City of Melbourne has opened a temporary park at the former Kilkenny Inn site in the CBD.
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City of Melbourne bans share hire e-scooters from the CBD
The City of Melbourne has walked back on its contracts with e-scooter share hire providers Lime and Neuron, citing community safety concerns.
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Cloud hangs over STH BNK by Beulah, but developer remains “committed to delivering our vision”
Uncertainty continues to loom over the future of Australia’s largest high-rise development STH BNK by Beulah, with the developer understood to be desperately cutting costs in order to save its project.
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New e-scooter regulations not enough to curb residents’ safety concerns
Local residents’ groups have called on the City of Melbourne to consult the public before it proceeds with a further rollout of commercial e-scooters following Melbourne’s two-year trial.
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Minister for Planning ignores heritage council to approve Shell House plans
Minister for Planning Sonya Kilkenny has exercised call-in powers to greenlight the redevelopment of the iconic Shell House despite opposition from the Heritage Council of Victoria and the City of Melbourne.
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Melbourne’s rising “ghost properties”
A new report has shed light on the significant number of vacant and underused properties in the City of Melbourne.
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$1.7b Queen Vic Market tower proposal referred for federal heritage review
A federal heritage review is under way for a controversial $1.7 billion development to transform the southern site of Queen Victoria Market.
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Council short-stay rental cap plan scrapped as government to introduce levy
The City of Melbourne will call on the state government to provide concrete evidence of how its policy to introduce a short-term accommodation rental levy would address the housing crisis.
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Drawing a line in the sand: no more overshadowing at Birrarung Marr
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