VCAT Representation

At Property Change Town Planners, we specialise in navigating the VCAT application process on your behalf. Our comprehensive services include:

• Preparing and lodging applications and supporting documentation
• Liaising with councils and referral authorities
• Engaging with objectors and facilitating negotiations
• Drafting and presenting detailed written submissions

With extensive experience in VCAT advocacy, we have successfully represented clients across a broad range of planning matters, ensuring strategic and professional representation to achieve the best possible outcomes.

As an example VCAT approval for Twelve townhouses on 1800 sq.m in Heidelberg is our most significant win yet for our VCAT Town Planning Consultant team. The approved development is for two rows of six served by a central driveway and pedestrian paths on each side boundary. The two townhouses at the front and the two townhouses at the rear are two storeys in height while the four townhouses in the centre of each row are three storeys in height.

See the AustLII (Australiasian Legal Information Institute) for a review on past VCAT decisions.

The Tribunal found:

The provision of two genuinely accessible townhouses and two other two-storey townhouses is a very good response to planning policy that seeks a diversity of dwelling types. As well as this, all townhouses have very good access to daylight, cross-ventilation and privacy, and very convenient access to their car parking spaces. These aspects weigh in the proposal's favour.