Ronge v Moreland CC

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

10/04/2017

LITIGATION TYPE

Project Approval - Mitigation

SUBJECT MATTER

Urban Planning

REVIEW TYPE

Merits review

SUMMARY

The proposal involved the construction of 57 attached two and three storey townhouses, a large central communal open space, one undercover car space for each dwelling (although three have an additional cars space) and three visitor car spaces. One of the grounds for the Council refusing the application was the adverse impact of a reduction in car parking on residentially zoned on-street parking. However, in the judgment the Tribunal found the strategies set out in Plan Melbourne 2017-2050 included an intention to constrain the outward spread of the urban area and to focus employment, services and development in national employment and innovation clusters, urban renewal precincts and activity centres linked by public transport. The Tribunal found that there were strong policy imperatives around relying less on motor vehicles and more on public transport, walking and cycling, and that oversupplying parking had the real potential to undermine the encouragement being given to reduce car based travel in favour of public transport, walking and cycling.

CASE DOCUMENTS

Ronge v Moreland CC [2017] VCAT 550