A 14-apartment building the size and shape of a church in Bayside Melbourne has boosted the level of much-needed medium-density housing in the city’s established inner ring without triggering hostility from local residents.
Missing middle miracle: Slate House in Melbourne’s Brighton, is a 14-apartment development on a 1372-square-metre site. When he announced Victoria’s plan last year to build 800,000 new homes over ten years, former premier Daniel Andrews said the state would “We took ownership of the ambiguous neighbourhood character argument the NIMBYs rely on as heavily as they rely on heritage. Those two ambiguous parts of the legislation are so easy to lever to delay and delay and delay.”