Battle for Box Hill: 'This isn't the CBD, it's suburbia'

Box Hill is booming but not everyone is happy - fed-up residents are warning of future slums as high-rise building surges in a hot market.

Gurner drastically reduces size and height of plan on prime North Fitzroy site

Controversial inner-city developer Tim Gurner has lodged plans for a drastically downsized apartment project on a prime North Fitzroy site, after Planning Minister Richard Wynne blocked his original 16-level proposal.

Developer and political donor makes rail line pitch

Developer Bill McNee, the political donor at the centre of a scandal involving an aircraft gifted to Pauline Hanson, is embarking on a new headache: trying to build over railway lines in Melbourne.

$110m Yarra bridge set to ease Chandler Highway woes

Premier admits he can't please everyone as work starts on long-awaited bridge between Kew and Alphington.

Dispute escalates over asbestos clean-up at Alphington 'Tesla town'

A dispute over an asbestos clean-up on one of Melbourne's biggest urban renewal sites has reached the Supreme Court.

Get a room - Melbourne's hotel and apartments approval boom

Melbourne's hotel boom is being driven by a shortage of rooms, a thriving tourism industry, and – according to one city agent – developers realising mixing hotel accommodation with apartments will get quicker plannin approval.

Corkman cowboys sue minister

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The developers that illegally demolished Carlton's historic Corkman Irish Pub – and then promised to rebuild the two-level hotel – are now suing Planning Minister Richard Wynne in a bid that would allow high-rise construction on their site.

Prove we need West Gate CBD off-ramps: planning experts

Transurban has been asked to prove that the West Gate Tunnel's controversial off-ramps into Melbourne's city centre need to be built at all.

Cycling 'freeway' plan dangerous, says council

Concerns have been raised about the "veloway" above Footscray Road, planned as part of Transurban's West Gate Tunnel project.