The making of Malvern East

The making of Malvern East
Mark BaljakJune 16, 2014

The making of Malvern East as an apartment stronghold that is. Established leafy streets aside, a large tract of Malvern East fronting Dandenong Road is steadily morphing from low-rise commercial/detached housing use to a higher density residential enclave.

The area is subject to a structure plan implemented by City of Stonnington which as seen below in Rothe Lowman's recent application for 887 Dandenong Road, generally encourages built form to six levels. 6-8 levels is the prevailing trend for the area generally opposite Monash University Caulfield, although additional projects are well spread along the northern side of Dandenong Road within Malvern East.

The making of Malvern East

The domain of private and local property developers, major developments within the burgeoning Malvern East precinct include:

Proposed

887 Dandenong Road, Malvern East - 42 apartments.

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1009-1011 Dandenong Road - 35 apartments.

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Approved

80-90 Waverley Road - 64 apartments.

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781 Dandenong Road - 314 apartments.

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At Sales

879 Dandenong Road - 56 apartments.

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Under construction

857 Dandenong Road - 59 apartments.

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Completed

951 Dandenong Road - 68 apartments.

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833 Dandenong Road - 83 apartments.

The making of Malvern East

Total apartments numbers over the highlighted seven projects equates to 721 or roughly 1100 new residents within the developing precinct once construction is complete. Add the abundance of existing, small-scale commercial tenancies along the northern reach of Dandenong Road and the numbers above could be double over time as further developments soak up likely development sites.

Urban.com.au will be watching Malvern East with great interest.

Mark Baljak

Mark Baljak was a co-founder of Urban.com.au. He passed away on Thursday 8th of November 2018 after a battle with cancer. He was 37. Mark was a keen traveller, having visited all six permanently-inhabited continents and had a love of craft beer. One of his biggest passions was observing the change that has occurred in Melbourne over the past two decades. In that time he built an enormous library of photos, all taken by him, which tracked the progress of construction on building sites from across metropolitan Melbourne.

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