Geelong's property mix runs wide: Victorian and Edwardian homes through Geelong West and Newtown, repurposed wool-era and industrial buildings near the waterfront, postwar family houses, coastal homes on the Bellarine, and new builds in the growth areas. Some properties carry heritage protection; many just need better space: a smarter plan, a well-judged extension, or a new building that suits its street.
Light, flow and a modern kitchen worked into a plan drawn a century ago.
Geelong West and Newtown blocks often carry more garden than their Melbourne cousins; a well-planned extension uses it without consuming it.
Where the block is tight or there is a bay view worth winning.
Geelong's repurposed industrial fabric is the city's signature (the council itself describes its "boom time" civic and industrial buildings, many repurposed for modern uses), and converting robust old buildings into homes and workplaces is one of the practice's deepest specialties.
Across Geelong, the Bellarine and the Surf Coast, where salt, wind and energy performance belong in the design from day one.
Covered in the approvals section below.
Every project answers to the Greater Geelong Planning Scheme, from neighbourhood character to setbacks, overlooking and access. If your property is heritage-affected, Geelong's system has specifics worth knowing:
Greater Geelong classifies heritage places from A level (State significance) to D (Contributory). The detail that surprises owners: even a property with no individual significance still needs a planning permit for works if it sits inside a heritage precinct.
The council runs a heritage advisory service, employing a qualified conservation practitioner, and in its own words, consulting the advisor and a town planner before lodging "is likely to make the application process smoother and faster." We build that consultation into our process rather than leaving it to chance.
We arrive with drawings that already answer the planner's likely questions.
Victoria's statutory period is 60 statutory days; pauses for information requests and referrals stretch most real projects beyond it.
Room to live in without giving up the character that made you buy here. A period home that finally suits the family in it. A conversion that keeps the building's industrial bones and gives them a second working life. A coastal home designed for its climate, not against it. And before any of it, an honest feasibility check on what the site and budget truly support.
The practice's record reaches well past the city: its regional community-housing deliveries in Greater Shepparton and Wangaratta both went from lodgement to approval in under a year, with regional builders and consultants. That experience carries whether the brief is a family home, a conversion or a larger development. Fees are fixed and agreed before design begins.
Gradings, permits and the heritage advisory service.
State planning rules, VicSmart and overlays.
Check a property's listing and grading.