Leanne Hodyl, co-ordinator of city plans and policy at Melbourne City Council, has published a new paper slamming Melbourne’s high-rise apartment design, whereby apartment towers in central Melbourne are being built at four times the densities allowed in other major cities – such as New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo – due to “weak, ineffective or non-existent” rules:
[Melbourne] enables the approval of tower developments that are very tall and that squeeze out the space between buildings, with little regard on the effect on the residents within, the impact on the streets below or on the value of neighbouring properties…
