Expert Building Designer & Town Planning Consultant in Yarra City Council

Yarra covers a mix of planning environments in which the right zone, overlay, or activity centre controls can change what's achievable on a site. SilverPoint Building Designers & Planning Consultants has been working inside 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 Yarra Council processes efficiently.

Whether the project is a Heritage Overlay renovation in Fitzroy, a townhouse development in Richmond, a dual occupancy in Abbotsford, or a commercial fit-out near the Cremorne precinct, SilverPoint Building Designers & Planning Consultants brings the planning knowledge and integrated design capability to get it right. 

In Yarra, the density of Heritage Overlay coverage means the design stage carries most of the risk. A renovation in Fitzroy that doesn't respect the heritage streetscape, a townhouse layout in Richmond that exceeds NRZ site coverage, or an Abbotsford dual occupancy that ignores overshadowing controls will prompt a Request for Further Information or a council objection, adding months to the project.

SilverPoint building designers and Planning Consultants in Yarra City Council build planning compliance into each design from day one. Setback requirements, ResCode standards, Heritage Overlay guidelines, and Yarra's neighbourhood character expectations are addressed in the drawings rather than discovered during assessment.

Every design produced by building design for Yarra projects supports the planning application it sits behind, so a permit is issued without conditions that would force a redesign.