The amendment proposes to introduce new heritage overlays to significant places and precincts within the suburb of Caulfield North. The amendment also updates the Statements of Significance for two existing places and two existing precincts within Caulfield North. The mapped extent of the two existing precincts is proposed to be altered along with the significance rating of some properties within these precincts, which is reflected in the revised Statements of Significance. The Statements of Significance are also proposed to be incorporated into the planning scheme at Clause 72.04 (Documents Incorporated in this Planning Scheme).

Lastly, three existing heritage overlays for individual places are proposed to be removed and these places will be included within wider precincts.

For further details, refer to the explanatory report about the amendment.

Details of the amendment

Glen Eira City Council as the planning authority has prepared Amendment C246glen to the Glen Eira Planning Scheme.

The land affected by the amendment is:

• 248-274 (even) and 261-277 (odd) Alma Road, Caulfield North (Alma Road Precinct).
• 11-17 Wyuna Road, Caulfield North (Wyuna Road Precinct).
• 1-17 Bambra Road, Caulfield North (Bambra Road Precinct).
• 28-34 Hawthorn Road, Caulfield North.
• 323 Alma Road, Caulfield North.
• 7 Cobden Street, Caulfield North.
• 88 Eskdale Road, Caulfield North.
• 486 Dandenong Road, Caulfield North.
• 1-2/76 Hawthorn Road, Caulfield North.
• 12 Pental Road, Caulfield North.
• 365 Alma Road, Caulfield North.
• 5 Norwood Road, Caulfield North.
• 66 Balaclava Road Caulfield North.
• 42 Lumeah Road, Caulfield North.
• 49 Lumeah Road, Caulfield North.
• 11 St Aubins Avenue, Caulfield North.
• 37 Fitzgibbon Crescent, Caulfield North.
• 358-362 Alma Road, Caulfield North.
• 385 Alma Road, Caulfield North.
• 387 Alma Road, Caulfield North.
• 119 Eskdale Road, 2, 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E Hudson Street, 33-85 and 95-115 (west side only) Kambrook Road, Caulfield North (Kambrook Road Precinct).
• 117-121 Kambrook Road, Caulfield North.
• 5-9 Manor Grove, Caulfield North.
• Caulfield Park, 280 Balaclava Road, Caulfield North.
• 2-14 and 1-33 Arthur Street, 1-31 and 6-34 Carnarvon Street, 528-530 Dandenong Road, 1-13 and 2 and 6-12 Glenferrie Street, 17-51 Hawthorn Road (east side only), 702A-764 Inkerman Road (north side only), 1-23 and 2-28 Malakoff Street, 1A-35 and 2-42 Malvern Grove, 1-17 and 2-20 Mayfield Grove, 1-21 and 6-30 Normanby Avenue and 107-135 Normanby Road, Caulfield North (Caulfield North Residential Precinct).
• 1-7 and 4-8 Linlithgow Avenue, 417-465 and 494, 496 and 506-538 Glen Eira Road, 98-120 and 103-109 Bambra Road, 133, 139, 141 and 143 Kambrook Road, 2A Oak Crescent, 2A Stephens Street, 1A and 1B Urandaline Grove, Caulfield North (Glen Eira Road and Environs Precinct).

The amendment proposes to implement the recommendations of the Caulfield North Heritage Review 2023 (updated March 2024) as well as the recommendations of the Kambrook Road Precinct Heritage Citation and Elsner Residence Heritage Citation to include 18 new individual places and four new precincts in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay. 

The amendment also amends the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay to include two new Statements of Significance for two existing places of individual heritage significance and removes three existing heritage overlays. The mapped extent and the Statement of Significance of two existing heritage precincts are also proposed to be amended.

You may inspect the amendment, any documents that support the amendment and the explanatory report about the amendment, free of charge, at:

• the Department of Transport and Planning website planning.vic.gov.au/public-inspection or by contacting 1800 789 386 to arrange a time to view the amendment documentation.
• the Glen Eira Have Your Say website at haveyoursaygleneira.com.au/amendmentc246 ; and
• on request, during office hours, at the office of the planning authority, Glen Eira City Council, cnr Glen Eira and Hawthorn Roads, Caulfield by contacting 9524 3333 to arrange a time to view the amendment documentation.

Any person may make a submission to the planning authority about the amendment. Submissions must be made in writing giving the submitter’s name and contact address, clearly stating the grounds on which the amendment is supported or opposed and indicating what changes (if any) the submitter wishes to make.

Name and contact details of submitters are required for the planning authority to consider submissions and to notify such persons of the opportunity to attend planning authority meetings and any public hearing held to consider submissions.

The closing date for submissions is 5pm on Friday 12 December 2025. A submission must be sent to either of the following places:

• Online submissions are preferred via:www.haveyoursaygleneira.com.au/amendmentc246
• Alternatively, by mail to:
  Glen Eira Planning Scheme Amendment C246
  Glen Eira City Council
  PO Box 42
  Caulfield South VIC 3162

The planning authority must make a copy of every submission available at its office and/or on its website for any person to inspect free of charge until the end of the two months after the amendment comes into operation or lapses.

Matt Slavin
Manager City Futures