Glossop Town Planning

We are passionate about planning.

Let us bring our passion and experience to your next project

Our passion spans many areas

Statutory Planning

Gaining planning approval is not easy. If you are proposing a dual occupancy, townhouse development or apartment building or any other project, we can guide you through the planning maze. Using our established network, we can assemble a team of experts to ensure you have the best and brightest at your fingertips.

Strategic Planning

Good planning policy can only achieve its intended purpose with practical implementation. Our strategic planning practice focuses on the development, implementation and review of planning policy, through a statutory planning lens.

Planning Advocacy and Evidence

Not every project gains approval at Council. If that happens, you may have the ability to challenge that decision at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT). Our planning team specialises in all aspects of the appeal process. We have well over 700 appearances to our name.

Our clients include:

We work with a variety of public and private sector clients including: Private Developers, Architects, Building Designers, Department of Transport and Planning, Merri-bek City Council, Brimbank City Council, Hobsons Bay City Council, Bayside City Council, Department of Treasury and Finance, Central Highlands Water, HIA, Melbourne Water, Western Water and many more.

Some of our passion projects...

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White Street, Mordialloc

Glossop Town Planning worked alongside Ammache Architects to achieve planning approval for this stunning gateway development comprising 20 three storey townhouses in Mordialloc. The application proceeded to a Council meeting in May 2024, with an officer recommendation for approval and was passed unanimously with no changes and no loss in yield.

Kingston C203

The Amendment sought to implement the Kingston Housing Strategy and Neighbourhood Character Study. It is the culmination of years of work by the Council, which started with the introduction of the reformed residential zones in July 2013. Appropriately, the final documents were influenced by the introduction of Planning Practice Notes 90 (Planning for Housing) and 91 (Using the Residential Zones) in December 2019. John was engaged by Council to provide expert evidence at the Panel Hearing. The Amendment was gazetted on 2 May 2024.

441-443 Plenty Road, Preston

John Glossop of Glossop Town Planning was called by Romy Davidov, Principal Lawyer of Best Hooper Lawyers as an expert town planning witness in the matter of R & D Finance Consultants Pty Ltd v Darebin CC [2020] VCAT 892.

Designed by well-known Melbourne architect Youseph Taouk of Taouk Architects, this matter involved a proposal for a four storey building fronting Plenty Road transitioning down to two levels at its rear where it abutted an existing single storey residential property.

Amendment VC272 to the Stonnington Planning Scheme

In 2016 Council adopted the Hawksburn Village Structure Plan which was prepared in consultation with the local Hawksburn Village community.

Glossop Town Planning was engaged by the City of Stonnington to review Amendment VC272 which sought to introduce the Hawksburn Village Structure Plan to the Stonnington Planning Scheme.

Glossop Town Planning also presented expert evidence at the Panel Hearing for Amendment VC272.