Expert Building Designer & Town Planning Consultant in Port Phillip City Council

Port Phillip covers a mix of planning environments in which the right zone, overlay, or activity centre control can change what's achievable on a site. SilverPoint Building Designers & Planning Consultants has been working within Victorian planning schemes for over 40 years, and we know where the opportunities are, which overlays are most likely to affect your project, and how to structure a planning permit application that Port Phillip Council processes efficiently. 

Whether the project is a dual occupancy in Elwood, a townhouse development near South Melbourne, a Heritage Overlay renovation in Albert Park, or a new project within the Fishermans Bend precinct in Port Melbourne, SilverPoint Building Designers & Planning Consultants brings the planning knowledge and integrated design capability to get it right. 

In Port Phillip, the mix of heritage coverage and precinct-specific controls means a permit outcome is often decided at the design stage. A dual occupancy layout in Elwood that overshoots NRZ site coverage, a townhouse proposal near South Melbourne that doesn't address a Heritage Overlay streetscape, or a Fishermans Bend concept that ignores precinct height controls will draw a Request for Further Information or a council objection, adding months to the project. 

SilverPoint Building Designers & Planning Consultants in Port Phillip City Council build planning compliance into every design from day one. Setback requirements, ResCode standards, Heritage Overlay guidelines, Fishermans Bend precinct controls and Port Phillip's neighbourhood character expectations are addressed in the drawings, not discovered during assessment. 

Every design produced by our building designer for Port Phillip projects supports the planning application it sits behind, so a permit arrives without conditions that force a redesign.