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Victoria’s new VC282 planning amendment fast-tracks single and small second dwellings, but will it solve the housing crisis? This week’s Permit Pending digs into housing targets, Melbourne’s shifting commercial landscape, economic warning signs, and the design solutions we should be building now.

Rebecca Lloyd-Jones founder of Travaux Development Strategy
Rebecca Lloyd-Jones | Development Strategist | Speaker

What Housing Crisis?

Housing targets? Fantasy.
Rents? Up.
Real incomes? Down.
And a quiet planning amendment just changed the game.

This week in Permit Pending:

  • Why VC282 will speed up approvals — and why it won’t fix the housing crisis unless we demand better design.
  • Melbourne’s pubs, plots, and prime sites shifting from beer taps to building cranes.
  • The household debt load that’s killing the economy.
  • Gas madness, EV trouble, and why “productivity” won’t save us.
  • The architects and projects that actually show how we could build more, better.

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What does this actually mean for housing delivery?

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