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[2011] VCAT 379
Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
2011-03-07
Original judgment source is linked above.
Section 77 & 149(1)(A) of the Planning & Environment Act 1987;Hume Planning Scheme; Development Plan Overlay, Under utilisation of the site, Activity Centre, Loss of views, Mixed Use Zone, Borrowed light, Vehicle access to site, Public open space
Burbank Property Group v Hume City Council [2011] VCAT 379
Mr Ian Pitt, SC of Best Hooper Solicitors. He called the following witnesses:
Mr Terry Montebello, Solicitor of Maddocks. He called the following witness:
Vehicle access is provided via two access points from Cleeland Court that create an internal 2-way loop road.
A linear park/communal open space area of 2000 square metres is to be located in the centre of the development.
Application under Section 77 & 149(1)(a) of the Planning and Environment Act 1987.
Clause 32.04-5 A permit is required for the construction and extension of two or more dwellings on a lot, dwellings on common property and residential buildings and also for the construction of a fence within 3 metres of a street is associated with two or more dwellings on a lot.
Clause 32.04-1 Use of shop is a Section 2 use.
Clause 43.04 A permit must not be granted to use or subdivide land ,construct a building or construct or carry out works until a development plan has been prepared to the satisfaction of the responsible authority.
The site is located within Roxburgh Park, which is within the Hume Growth Corridor.
The subject land is irregularly shaped lot with an overall site area of 1.954 hectares.
Access to the lot is achieved form the southern road to the Roxburgh Park shopping centre, Thomas Brunton Parade.
The site has a slope of 4 metres over its east-west axis.
To the south of the site is the Roxburgh Park major activity centre. Planning approval has recently been granted to take the retail space to 36,000 square metres. The site is also adjoined to the south east by the Roxburgh Park public transport providing train and bus services.
The site is adjoined to the north by Cleeland Court which has 10 dwellings that sit directly opposite the subject site.
Clauses 11.01, 11.03, 11.04-2, 15.01, 16, 18, 21.02-1, 21.02-2, 21,05-5, 21.06-2, 21.07, 21.08 and 65.
Safer Design Guidelines for Victoria (Crime Prevention Victoria and the Department of Sustainability and Environment 2005).
Guidelines for Higher Density Residential Development (Department of Sustainability and Environment 2005).
I inspected the site and surrounds on 13 February 2011.
P283/2011 is an application to review Council's failure to determine whether it is satisfied that the development plans submitted under the Development Plan Overlay (Schedule 7) is to their satisfaction within the prescribed time. Council is not satisfied with the proposal outlined in the submitted site specific development plan. In order for development to occur on the site, it must be consistent with an approved development plan[2].
The Shire of Bulla approved a document titled The Roxburgh Park Local Structure Plan, dated November 1994. It was the view of Mr Montebello that this document is the existing approved development plan for the purposes of the DPO7 and that this plan that has guided the development of the estate.
He further submitted that although Council has been acting on the basis that there is an approved development plan, a 'signed' copy of the development plan was unable to be provided. Council therefore supported the preparation of a site specific development plan for the site under DPO 7.
I therefore have a development plan before me for my consideration against clause 43.04 for approval.
Council refused the application for permit on the grounds that the proposal fails to comply with the state and local planning policy framework, fails to comply with clause 52.35 and the Guidelines for Higher Density Residential Development, is deficient on a built form and urban design basis, access arrangements are inappropriate and the open space is not consistent with Council requirements.
Encourage average overall residential densities in the growth areas of a minimum of 15 dwellings per net developable hectare.
The land is almost exclusively residential despite the mixed use zoning.
Vehicle access to the site being predominantly from Murchison Drive and Cleeland Court.
The Construction Management Plan must be to the satisfaction of the Responsible Authority. Once submitted and endorsed by Council the plan shall form part of the permit and must be carried out to the satisfaction of the Responsible Authority.
[1] I have considered all submissions presented by the parties although I do not recite all of the contents in these reasons.
[2] Clause 43.04 of the Hume Planning Scheme.
[4] Clause 11.02-2 Planning for growth areas.
[5] 123 dwellings does not include the 12 lots designated for single dwelling development at a later date.
[6] I note that Council's concern primarily related to the use of Cleeland Court, not Murchison Drive.
Burbank Property Group
Hume City Council [2011] VCAT 379