Industry Articles

Millar Merrigan will in the coming months be launching this section of the website with industry articles that Millar Merrigan recommend you take into consideration when planning or researching your next land development.

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Opportunities in existing suburbs

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…

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Project Alert: 57 Melbourne Street, Kilmore

You may be aware of a parcel of land in Kilmore which is zoned residential 1 and has an area of approximately 7.6 hectares. Marketed by Burgess Rawson who were initially calling for Expressions of Interest by 16th October 2008 they have since revised this to a Tender closing 23rd October 2008.

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D Spec & Asset Recording

The process for receiving, handling and storing of underground infrastructure related to subdivision developments in their geographically information systems (GIS). Requirements of drainage in subdivisions in municipalities that are members of the d-spec consortium (planning permit required to be met to enable issue of Statement of Compliance).

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Melbourne 2030 Audit - Submissions

All Victorians were invited to make a submission as part of the five-yearly audit of Melbourne 2030. Over 200 submissions were received, receipted and checked by the Department of Planning and Community Development to ensure that requests for privacy were honoured. Copies of all submissions have been made available for public viewing, except where submitters requested their submissions not be made publicly available (two in total).

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