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Guides on rooming houses, second dwellings, permits and the numbers behind them — answer first, every claim referenced to the instrument that makes it true.

A 60 m² second dwelling in a Melbourne backyard at dusk — the size the VC253 exemption is written around

Planning & permits·19 September 2026

Granny flats in Victoria without a planning permit: the VC253 rules, exactly

What Amendment VC253 actually changed, what VC282 added in September 2025, and the six conditions a backyard dwelling must meet to skip the planning permit — with the clause numbers, not the folklore.

Joey Don

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