Multi-dwelling SWMPs
Stormwater Management Plans for townhouse and apartment infill, scoped to the council condition and the sustainable design assessment pathway.
Service detail → Council · City of Whitehorse
Stormwater management plans for the City of Whitehorse.
Council-ready Stormwater Management Plans for townhouse and multi-unit development across the Whitehorse Planning Scheme — sustainable design assessment water inputs, detention documentation, and the council drainage approvals that follow the permit.
Council requirements
What the Whitehorse Planning Scheme requires.
Whitehorse asks planning applications for 3–9 dwellings — or development of 500–1,000 m² gross floor area — to include a Sustainable Design Assessment, with a more detailed Sustainability Management Plan for larger projects. The water section must address runoff volume reduction, peak-flow detention, rainwater tank reuse, and stormwater quality, typically evidenced with a STORM report and a stormwater delineation plan showing rainwater collection and the pervious and impervious areas. Council's recognised assessment tools include BESS, Green Star, MUSIC, and Melbourne Water's BlueFactor (previously STORM).
After the permit, the drainage path runs through council: a Stormwater Legal Point of Discharge report first, then council checking and approval of the engineer-designed drainage where the report requires it, and a drainage permit for any works within a council road or easement. The Victorian WSUD guide covers the treatment measures behind the water-quality response.
What we deliver in Whitehorse
Core stormwater coverage for the middle-ring east.
WSUD & delineation plans
STORM reporting with rainwater tanks, raingardens, and permeable paving, plus the stormwater delineation plan council asks for.
Service detail →Detention & drainage inputs
Peak-flow detention documentation and stormwater strategy inputs for the Legal Point of Discharge and civil plan approval stage.
Service detail → Local context
Townhouse and apartment infill in Melbourne's east.
Whitehorse's development activity is concentrated in established suburbs — Box Hill, Blackburn, Mitcham, Nunawading, Burwood — where multi-dwelling projects replace single houses on serviced lots. That makes the stormwater work a two-stage exercise: the planning-stage sustainable design and stormwater documentation, then the post-permit drainage design that council's engineers check against the Legal Point of Discharge report.
A SWMP that anticipates the second stage — realistic detention assumptions, a discharge point that matches the council report, and a treatment train that survives detailed design — avoids rework between the permit and the civil drawings. Subdivision civil plans go through the same council checking pathway.
Service path
Starting a Whitehorse SWMP.
Send the site address, current plans, council wording, and any Legal Point of Discharge, drainage, or sustainable design correspondence already issued. The SWMP scope is set from the actual permit condition or RFI.
- Council condition or RFI wording
- Current development plans
- Feature and level survey if available
- Stormwater Legal Point of Discharge report if already issued
- Sustainable design documentation already prepared, if any
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