Millar Merrigan - Land Development Consultants

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…

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).