VIC Legal Series | Managing the tension between urban greening and housing delivery in planning decisions

Planners, Councils and the State Government are increasingly caught between the imperatives of delivering more homes and protecting and expanding urban greening. This session will provide an overview of decision making in the context of recent changes to planning controls in balancing the provision of more homes against protecting and providing for vegetation and canopy trees.

Planners, Councils and the State Government are increasingly caught between the imperatives of delivering more homes and protecting and expanding urban greening. This session will provide an overview of decision making in the context of recent changes to planning controls in balancing the provision of more homes against protecting and providing for vegetation and canopy trees. 

 Speaker

David Vorchheimer MPIA (Fellow), Principal - Government Planning and Environment, Russell Kennedy

David is a town planner and lawyer specialising in Planning, Environment, Heritage, Building, Subdivision and Local Government law matters. David regularly appears at the Victorian
Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Planning Panels and Advisory Committees on behalf of developers, objectors and State and local government clients. David advises on and coordinates land acquisition and compensation, major projects, subdivision, environmental and heritage approvals.
 

Facilitator

Kat Smith MPIA, Senior Policy Officer, Planning Institute of Australia

Kat is an urban planner with over over fifteen years of experience across local and state government as well as the private sector in Victoria. Kat is now Senior Policy Officer with PIA, working across the Victorian and national offices.

Kat has a strong background in strategic planning and policy development, working across many areas of planning policy development and implementation, particularly in roles at the Victorian Planning Authority and Whittlesea City Council. Kat is particularly interested in building sound, evidence-based policy and advocacy to inform decision-making to drive outcomes that best serve the public interest.

 
 

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When
22/07/2026 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
AUS Eastern Standard Time
Where
Online, VIC AUSTRALIA

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