125 Mountain View Parade, Rosanna

Application outcome

The application was refused on 12 February 2025 for the following reasons:

• Non-compliance with accessibility standard in Clause 53.24.
• Failure to meet Good Neighbours objective in the Adaptation Guide due to the building’s setbacks, lack of landscaping and visual bulk impacts.
• Failure to meet Greening objective in the Adaptation Guide due to lack of planting to rear and side boundaries and lack of evergreen canopy trees to front setback.
• Failure to meet Sustainability objective in the Adaptation Guide due to lack of detail regarding shadow impacts to adjoining solar panels, not using best practice passive design and not sufficiently encouraging sustainable transport alternatives.
• Failure to consider and resolve flooding and overland flow impacts.

A copy of the decision was sent to submitters along with the permit applicant.

Applications for review (VCAT)

The Future Homes Planning application process has different review provisions, particularly for 3rd party submitters (objectors), allowing only the applicant the ability to lodge an application for review with VCAT.

Now that a decision has been made to refuse the application, the applicant has a period of 60 days from 12 February 2025 to seek a review of the refusal.

At this stage, no applications for review have been lodged by the applicant; however, further updates will be provided on this page should VCAT notify Council otherwise.

The Department of Transport and Planning have confirmed that third parties will not be permitted to be joined as a party to any VCAT proceeding against the refusal of the Future Homes application.

Proposal detail

Apartment mix incorporating:

• 8 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom apartments
• 8 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom apartments
• 1 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom apartment
• 22 car parking spaces within basement (17 for residents and 5 for visitors)
• 20 bicycle parking spaces.

It is noted that the proposal does not seek the removal of any protected vegetation on the site.

For more details on the proposed development, refer to the advertised plans and documents available on this page.

Future Homes applications

Future Homes was introduced by the Victorian Government into the Victorian Planning Provisions under Clause 53.24 in September 2023 following a pilot program in the City of Maribyrnong.

The purpose of Future Homes is to facilitate apartment developments that are exemplary in design, liveability and sustainability to increase density and diversity of housing in responding to Victoria’s population growth.

To be eligible for Future Homes, a site must meet the following criteria:

• Must be in the General Residential Zone.
• Must be within 800m of a passenger railway station or 800m of a metropolitan, major or neighbourhood activity centre.
• Must not be within a Heritage Overlay or Neighbourhood Character Overlay.
• Must not have a restriction preventing an apartment development.

Once the eligibility of a site is confirmed by the Department of Transport and Planning (DTP), one of 4 exemplar designs can be purchased and adapted to individual sites. Design adaptions must meet the development standards in Clause 53.24 along with applicable mandatory building height and garden area requirements in the General Residential Zone. When a Future Homes design is purchased, an applicant will automatically be given access to the Future Homes planning pathway.

This is a 4-phase process that is designed to be faster and more streamlined than a traditional planning pathway.

Phase 1

Design adaptation and initiation meeting Customise the design to fit specific requirements.

Phase 2

Referrals: DTP and other authorities submit a pre-application referral to DTP and other authorities as required and obtain feedback.

Phase 3

Council lodgement and community notice Submit adapted design and application documentation to council.

Phase 4

Delegated decision Council reviews the application and issues a decision. Learn further details of the Future Homes program.

Queries relating to the Victorian Government regarding the Future Homes program and process can be directed to futurehomes@transport.vic.gov.au

Assessing a Future Homes Application

Once the application has been lodged to Council, the proposal is assessed against any applicable overlays and the development standards under Clause 53.24.

The development standards include:

• car and bicycle parking
• communal open space
• environmentally sustainable design
• accessibility building entry and circulation
• storage room layout, depth and window access
• natural ventilation
• deep soil and canopy cover

Under the provisions of Clause 53.24, our Development Planning Team cannot consider the following parts of the Banyule Planning Scheme it its assessment:

• The Municipal Planning Strategy and Planning Policy Framework
• Preferred Residential Neighbourhood Character Policy
• The purpose and decision guidelines of the General Residential Zone
• The decision guidelines in Clause 65
• Clause 55 ‘ResCode’

Future Homes applications are advertised the same way as a normal planning application with letters sent to adjoining property owners and occupiers and the installation of a sign on site for a period of 14 days.

The application for 125 Mountain View Parade, Rosanna has been advertised from 29 November 2024 to 13 December 2024.

Residents are able to make submissions to the application up until our Development Planning Team makes a decision.

Future Homes applications are exempt from the review rights of Section 82(1) of the Planning and Environment Act 1987.