Millar Merrigan - Land Development Consultants

On July 1st as a result of the 2008 review by the Essential Services Commission, major changes came into effect, which significantly vary the way every water authority in Victoria levies fees. This determination also changed the way external and upsizing sewer and water works are funded.

In the latter decades of the last century ‘affordable housing’ usually consisted of a modest sized house on a generous sized allotment. In the 1960’s the size of houses then being built was seen as the ‘norm’ (about 10 -12 squares or 100sqm) rather than modest. Today most housing on the urban fringe is about double this size. In the 1960’s the size of lots on newly subdivided land was generally around 800sqm; today the typical lot size is about half of this. The tables have turned from those…