Best Hooper regularly acts in disputes under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment…
Congratulations to John Cicero on being recognised as “Lawyer of the Year” in Land Use…
The Victorian Government has announced a Mid-Rise Code, which is a new planning framework that…
Congratulations to the entire Best Hooper team on being recognised as a First Tier Town…
Since Amendment VC286 removed the requirement to obtain planning permission for licensed premises by deleting…
The Planning Amendment (Make Better Decisions Faster) Bill 2025 (Bill) was tabled in the Legislative…
The Victorian Government’s new 10-Year Plan for Industrial Land sets a vision for industrial land…
On 15 October 2025, the Victorian Government tabled the State Taxation Further Amendment Bill 2025…
Victoria’s latest transmission reforms will directly affect landowners across the state. The National Electricity (Victoria)…
The Sunshine Superhub is a major upgrade of the Sunshine Station precinct that will create…
From 1 January 2026, Vacant Residential Land Tax (VRLT) is changing. Before 1 January 2026,…
Fences are often treated as the true legal boundary between properties. But fences can be…
A recent Supreme Court of Victoria decision has changed the game for retail leasing practices…
In recent years the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has issued a number of decisions…
Casey Fields South and Devon Meadows PSP What is it? The Casey Fields South (Employment)…
In Scoventure Pty Ltd v Yarra CC (Red dot) [2024] VCAT 12071, VCAT granted a…
The Consumer and Planning Legislation Amendment (Housing Statement Reform) Bill 2024 (the Bill) proposes significant…
The Consumer and Planning Legislation Amendment (Housing Statement Reform) Bill 2024 (Bill) seeks to introduce…
In late October 2024, Transmission Company Victoria (TCV) unveiled its preferred alignment for the Victoria-NSW…
The Victorian Government has announced a comprehensive overhaul of the state’s developer contributions system, marking…
The recent decision of the Tribunal in AV Jennings Properties Ltd v Whittlesea CC [2024]…
The Victorian Government recently released Melbourne’s Green Wedges and Agricultural Land Action Plan (Action Plan)….
Best Hooper Lawyers is pleased to announce the promotions of these outstanding professionals who have…
Legislation for the new Commercial and Industrial Property Tax (CIPT) has now passed Parliament and…
Extra special congratulations to the individual rankings of our following lawyers who have been specifically…
On 1 November 2023, our office wrote an article about the implications of the decision…
If you are a landowner in Victoria and received a land tax notice from the…
Amendment VC254 was gazetted Monday and introduces a key change to the text of Clause…
In the case of Hanson Construction Materials Pty Ltd v Greater Bendigo CC [2023] VCAT 1341, the…
There now appears to be two decisions of the Tribunal which take different views when…
In the first reported decision since the gazettal of Amendment VC243 (Amendment), VCAT has provided…
After months of speculation, the State Government has released the “Victoria’s Housing Statement” (VHS) seeking…
Best Hooper Lawyers is delighted to announce the continued expansion of its property development expertise…
Review of Valuation of Land for Properties encumbered by Heritage Overlays. In the recent decision…
Best Hooper is excited to announce that Sebastian Greenway, Victoria’s leading compulsory acquisition and compensation…
This article provides a brief overview and ‘cheat sheet’ of what to do when you…
This article provides commentary on the recent VCAT decision in Chow v Yarra CC [2022]…
The Project The Melbourne Airport Rail Link Project (Project) is the transport project set to…
The State Taxation and Treasury Legislation Amendment Act 2022 introduces a number of changes to…
From 1 July 2022, the Victoria Civil and Administrative Tribunal (“VCAT”) will be introducing a…
Cautionary tale – lodging appeals within time and recent line of decisions on late objector…
John Cicero and Edward Mahony of our office recently successfully represented the Permit Applicant in…
Best Hooper is excited to announce the expansion of our Land Development and Compulsory Acquisitions…
Applications made under section 57 of the Domestic Building Contracts At 1995 (Vic) (the DBCA) to stay a ‘domestic building…
The Victorian budget delivered on 20th May 2021 proposed some highly controversial and almost immediate…
Manor Central Nominees Pty Ltd v Wyndham City Council [2021] VSC 92 This case concerns…
Eliza Minney, Senior Associate, of our office was part of a small group of industry…
Legislation often allows for the service of documents by sending them through the postal service….
Recently, the Minister introduced Planning Scheme Amendment GC172 into a number of planning schemes across…
As part of the State Government’s “Victoria’s Big Build”, the Suburban Rail Loop (the Loop)…
A new Bill was introduced on 2nd September 2020 titled the COVID-19 Commercial and Residential…
Amongst a number of changes introduced to the Planning and Environment List is the introduction…
Whilst COVID-19 has changed the manner in which we work and operate day-to-day, our office…
Following a VPELA webinar this morning with Deputy President Bisucci, we provide the following updates…
Along with the majority of other service providers in Australia, we are guilty of professing…
The Victorian Planning & Environmental Law Association held a seminar this morning in relation to…
APDA, as part of their Insight Series, interviewed our very own John Cicero (Principal of…
Paul Kelly expressed a view in the Weekend Australian that Scott Morrison has taken the…
The COVID-19 health crisis has necessitated Government intervention and assistance the world over. The National…
To Our Developer Community, In these unprecedented times, we cannot predict how this will look…
While this new year has sprung upon us in a devastating way, we are always…
Amendment VC161 was gazetted on 17 September 2019 to the Planning Schemes which introduces new…
The interpretation of the garden area requirement in General Residential and Neighbourhood Residential Zones was…
Best Hooper is extremely proud to announce that a number of our Planning and Land…
On 3 December 2018, the new Owners Corporations Regulations 2018 (Vic) replaced the existing Owners…
All residential zones detail a ‘maximum building height’. However there has been a number of…
In a judgment of His Honour Greg Garde, the Supreme Court has considered the treatment…
Very recently, the State Government introduced Amendment VC148 to Planning Schemes, which applies to all…
Best Hooper is extremely proud to announce that a number of our planning lawyers have…
The Melbourne property market’s future is up in the air – literally. Traditionally, the property…
In early 2017, the Government introduced further changes to the residential zone provisions. Significantly, the restriction of the number of dwellings in the Neighbourhood Residential Zone of 2 was removed. This was a sensible reform.
Best Hooper has been an expert in the property and land sector areas of law…
The prestigious Doyle’s Guide 2017 was announced this week, with our firm receiving numerous listings…
An unexpected turn of events during a recent VCAT hearing confirms that good design is…
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Albert Einstein. With the advent of…
A hammerhead tower crane that was entering the airspace above an abutting residential property in…
One of the recent amendments to the Victorian planning provisions has been the introduction of…
Anyone who has purchased a property will have learnt that the old English doctrine of…
Another week, another change to the Victorian Planning Provisions. On 13 April 2017, the Minister…
As a 28-level tower has recently been given approval as part of Lendlease’s $2.5 billion…
Best Hooper recently signed up for Australia Post’s Land Title Verification of Identity (VOI) service…
Recent amendments to the Building Act have seen some important changes to the process of…
We recently reported on Best Hooper’s involvement in the Supreme Court decision of Frontlink Pty…
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