Town planning in the City of Manningham.
Doncaster · Doncaster East · Templestowe · Bulleen · Warrandyte · Donvale
Manningham runs from the apartment towers of Doncaster Hill to the bushland edges of Warrandyte — probably the widest planning spectrum of any middle-ring municipality. Doncaster Hill's activity centre framework has supported high-rise development for two decades, while the Yarra escarpment suburbs carry landscape, vegetation and bushfire controls that keep development deliberately sparse.
In between, the established suburbs of Templestowe and Doncaster East host steady dual-occupancy and townhouse activity, shaped by slope, trees and the municipality's strong landscape character policies.
The Manningham questions we see most: what Doncaster Hill's controls allow on a consolidated site, whether a sloping Templestowe lot can carry two dwellings once canopy and driveway grades are resolved, and how the bushfire and environmental controls shape anything east of Mullum Mullum Creek. Slope and vegetation analysis leads our site work here.
Controls you'll commonly meet in Manningham.
Every property is different — these are the zones and overlays that most often shape applications in this municipality. Each links to the current ordinance in the Manningham planning scheme.
Services we provide in Manningham.
Residential
Single dwellings, dual occupancies, multi-unit and apartment developments — the backbone of our practice.
Feasibility Report
Can your block be subdivided? A planner-reviewed desktop report for any Victorian address — $275 inc. GST, delivered within 24 hours on business days.
Commercial Permits
Statutory planning strategy, lodgement and permit management for commercial, retail and industrial projects.
VCAT Appeals
Strategic advocacy at the Tribunal — for applicants fighting a refusal, and for objectors challenging a permit.
Strategic Planning
Planning scheme amendments, rezonings and structure plans for long-horizon projects.
Protection Works
Form 7 and Form 8 notices under the Building Act — acting for building owners, adjoining owners and surveyor referrals. Victoria only.
Questions we’re asked most.
If you have a question that’s not here, call us — we answer honestly, whether or not it leads to work.
- Frequently, yes — much of the area is General Residential Zone where two dwellings on a lot is a conventional outcome. The deciding factors are usually physical rather than zoning: slope and driveway gradients, significant tree retention under the landscape overlays, and stormwater on the escarpment lots. A feasibility check resolves those before you commit.
Got a site, a permit, or a refusal on your desk?
An obligation-free conversation is the fastest way to see if we can help. We respond within 24 hours — usually much sooner.