Lessons on Density Controls from Five Melbourne Projects - with Leanne Hodyl

📍Place: Glou Wine Bar (310 Smith St, Collingwood VIC 3066)

🕖 Time: 6:00 to 7:30 pm

📅 When: Monday, 14th of April, 2025

As planning reform roles out across Victoria, there is a heightened focus on planning tools that will deliver high quality design outcomes, additional housing opportunities and increased certainty for the community, developers and planners alike. From our recent discretionary planning tradition, a range of deemed to comply and density controls are being explored at break-neck speed.

In the context of the current reform program, we are often left with little time to pause, reflect and share best practice.

This event, hosted at Glou Wine Bar is an opportunity to reflect and learn from explorations of density controls by Leanne Hodyl, one Melbourne’s leading experts in design-led planning controls, who rose to prominence off the back of her Churchill Fellowship in 2015 while at the City of Melbourne. Leanne has subsequently built a successful consultancy working with a range of State, Territory and Local Governments around Australia with an emphasis on public value creation in urban development.

Leanne will reflect on her experience (the good, the bad and everything in between) working across a number of critical projects which implement Floor Area Ratios as a key aspect of local area planning. Leanne will speak to lessons learned in the scoping, methodology, design testing and outcomes that have resulted from five distinct projects over the past decade.

This event is a must for urban designers or urban practitioners engaged in the preparation of place-based planning controls.

Note: Ticket price includes snacks and one drink on arrival from our friends at Glou Wine Bar & Shop.

Images: 1. Leanne Hodyl | 2. Glou Wine Bar | 3. Pakington / Gordon Avenue Structure Plan | 4. South Melbourne Structure Plan