Building Designer & Town Planning consultant Kingston City Council

Kingston is one of the busiest councils in Melbourne's south-east for residential redevelopment, home to more than 166,000 residents across 91 square kilometres. The level crossing removals at Mentone, Cheltenham, Edithvale, Bonbeach, Carrum and Chelsea have changed what's realistic near each station, and dual-occupancy and townhouse enquiries in these pockets have closely followed that infrastructure spend.  

SilverPoint Building Designers & Planning Consultants has spent more than 40+ years turning that kind of local shift into a workable planning permit and a design that survives council assessment. If your project sits anywhere between a Mentone knockdown rebuild and a Chelsea foreshore renovation, we handle the zoning read, the permit strategy and the drawings.  

Council doesn't reject applications because the paperwork is thin; it sends them back because the design didn't account for something the zone or overlay already required. A dual occupancy pushed to the edge of GRZ site coverage in Cheltenham, a townhouse pair in Mordialloc that overlooks the block behind it, or a Mentone extension drawn without checking the NRZ schedule first, all end up with the same outcome: a Request for Further Information and a project pushed back months.  

Our building designers work from the zoning and overlay findings, not around them. Setbacks, site coverage, overshadowing and Kingston's neighbourhood character expectations get resolved on the drawing board, so what reaches council is a design the planning report can support.  

This is how we handle building design for projects across the south eastern suburbs.