A Supreme Court fight looms over whether apartment buildings should be built instead of houses near a promised railway station in Melbourne’s outer west.
An empty paddock on Melbourne’s south-western periphery has become ground zero in a legal battle over whether it is time to build high-density apartment buildings in the outer suburbs.
The council and the transport department both insist that the housing estate must be taller and denser with apartment buildings up to five storeys high in some parts of the estate, which is located in a growth corridor about 30 kilometres from the CBD. Transport for Victoria has backed the council’s decision for one key reason: the $3.65 billion regional rail link runs through the estate, and the department plans to build a new $129 million station there within three years,
It also argued that its mostly low-density housing plan could not be changed “due to the lack of market for apartment/stacked housing outcomes in growth areas currently”.Peet managing director and chief executive Brendan Gore said he could not comment directly on the matter as the company was awaiting a Supreme Court hearing, “but we are working with the relevant organisations to reach a resolution”.
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