F.A.Q. & Advice

These pages are worth checking because they cover common issues that can have serious consequences for objectors who are not aware of how to deal with them.

General Advice & Overview 

Residents Guide for Objectors – For help with objecting to a planning application

Expert advice on specific key planning issues – Dr Stephen Rowley, RMIT

Beware of doing deals with developers – they’re rarely legally binding

Help for residents to argue on Rescode guidelines at VCAT

Beware s89 Appeals to cancel or amend a permit at VCAT!

Can I record or get a recording of a VCAT Hearing?

Can I get any free Legal Advice?

How to get an SOS sign – ‘We oppose inappropriate development’

Enforcement of Planning Permits

Getting information about development applications from council planning files

Using cases of precedent at VCAT to help win your own case

Local democracy – how a council can subvert community attempts to exercise some oversight and transparency over the planning permit process (with references)

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