How this application got here
Nine months of assessment, then a few weeks for the public. The sequence is worth seeing laid out.
Dates below are taken from Council’s planning register, from date-received stamps on the advertised documents, and from Council’s own project pages. Where a date is not established, it is not shown.
- 13 October 2025
PP-825/2025 lodged — a two lot subdivision and removal of an easement at the same parent address.
- 31 October 2025
PP-909/2025 lodged — this application. Nine months before the public was invited to comment.
- 3 December 2025
Acoustic consultant inspects the site and records background noise over approximately one hour.
- 9 January 2026
PP-825/2025 permit issued, under Delegated Authority. No councillor voted on it.
- 16 January 2026
PP-29/2026 lodged — a three lot subdivision at the same parent address.
- 12 February 2026
PP-102/2026 lodged — construction of ten dwellings at the same parent address.
- 23 February 2026
Acoustic report received by Council.
- 26 February 2026
PP-825/2025/A lodged, seeking to amend the subdivision permit.
- Early 2026
Council completes works at the Roslyn Road and Thornhill Road intersection, including a roundabout and raised pedestrian crossings, with stated objectives including improved safety near Highton Primary School.
- 19 March 2026
Amended permit issued for PP-825/2025/A, adding creation of a restriction.
- 18 June 2026
Council issues a request for further information on this application.
- 22 June 2026
The applicant meets Council’s Special Building Overlay engineers. An increase of 0.05 m to the dwelling’s finished floor level is agreed.
- 10 July 2026
The applicant responds. Civil drawing sets, an updated peer review letter, updated architectural drawings and an updated planning assessment report are lodged with Council. Most of those drawing sets are not published in the advertised list.
- July 2026
Public notice begins. A sign goes up on the fence and the application appears on Council’s advertised planning page.
- 6 August 2026
Public comment closes. Council states it will not decide before this date. Submissions received afterwards will be considered if a decision has not yet been made.
What the sequence shows
The application was lodged at the end of October 2025 and advertised in July 2026. Council and the applicant spent roughly nine months on it — a request for further information, a meeting between engineers, revised drawings, a revised planning report. The public gets a few weeks at the end, and the version being advertised is the version that survived that process.
That is not a criticism of anyone. It is how the system is built, and there are good reasons for an applicant and a council to work through technical detail before a proposal is put to neighbours. But it is worth knowing when you read the documents: what you are looking at is the refined version, and the reasoning that shaped it — Council’s requests, Council’s engineering comments, the meeting in June — is largely not in front of you.
Sources: City of Greater Geelong planning register; date-received stamps on the advertised documents; FI – RFI Response Letter, 10 July 2026; Acoustic Report; Council and Transport Victoria project pages; Council’s current application page.