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)