Land & CommunitiesClare BurnettWed 23 Sep 26
Kingswood Golf Course Masterplan Finally Clears Planning Hurdle
The Victorian Government has approved a 932-home estate in south-east Melbourne, the former home of the Kingswood Golf Club.
Minister for Planning Sonya Kilkenny this week greenlit the plans that also include 10ha of open space for the site at 179-217 Centre Dandenong Road in the City of Kingston, 25km from the CBD.
The project at Dingley Village by Satterley Property Group comprises a range of lot sizes for detached homes and townhouses.
The estate was originally planned for 941 lots, however, Satterley took it down to 932 during the planning process.
The staged development will deliver 10 per cent affordable housing, and 20 per cent of the site is to dedicated to open green space.
The plan “has been shaped following extensive consultation with locals, Kingston Council and Melbourne Water,” according to the Minister’s office.
It will require updated flood and drainage modelling to satisfy the council and Melbourne Water requirements, it said.
The Kingswood Golf Course has been closed since 2018 but redeveloping the site has been an uphill battle for a number of landowners.
The project made headlines early this year when the council attempted to have an earlier ministerial approval for the development thrown out.
The Kingston City Council asked the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) to review a decision by the Minister for Planning approving the development plan for the former golf club.
The initial plans were approved in October 2025 following the rezoning of the 53.4ha site in 2023.
But VCAT, while noting the council’s objections, said the local authority had lodged its application for a review of the decision four days outside the specified 28-day period.
It found that the council’s reasons for missing the deadline were not acceptable and dismissed the application, allowing the developer to progress its permit application to the state.
Kingston Council mayor Georgina Oxley this week said she was “angered” by the state approval.
“For more than a decade, the community and the council have raised serious concerns about huge tree losses, the scale of development, limited open space, traffic impacts and flood risks. Yet we have been consistently ignored,” Oxley said in a statement.
Satterley bought the Kingswood Golf Course in March 2024 from the country’s biggest super fund, AustralianSuper, for $220 million.
AustralianSuper took the State Revenue Office to court over a $36.5 million windfall gains tax assessment over the rezoning of the site.
In a hearing last month, the super fund won its appeal in the first legal challenge against the tax since it was implemented in 2021.
