Latest Update 2025

With all three stages titled and landscaped, and many homes almost completed, Panorama is shaping up beautifully. We’re excited to see our community come to life as our first purchasers build their dream coastal homes and move in over the coming weeks and months. Read our Settlement Guide for more information about your settlement process.

Important Updates to the Panorama Design Guidelines

There has been an important update to the Panorama Portarlington Design Guidelines regarding fencing requirements.

Following feedback from residents and advice from our landscape consultant, the Panorama Design Panel (PPDP) has reviewed the fencing styles previously specified in the Design Guidelines.

As a result:

• Type 1 Fencing (Steel Finn and Timber 0.9m) has been deleted.

• Type 3 Fencing (Steel Angle and Timber 1.8m) has also been deleted.

• Residents who would previously have been required to use Type 1 Fencing (Lots with frontages to Geelong Road), can now use Type 2 (Steel Finn 0.9m) only.

• Residents who would previously have been required to use Type 3 Fencing (Corner lots or lots with a public realm frontage) can now use Type 4 – (Steel Angle 1.8m) only.

This change has been made to reduce unnecessary cost and complexity for residents, as the custom timber-and-steel options were difficult to source locally and often required expensive fabrication.

What this means for you

• If you have already received PPDP design approval, your approval remains valid – you do not need to resubmit for an amendment. We simply require you to no longer use Types 1 and 3 fencing (steel and timber combinations).

• If you are preparing a new application, please refer only to the updated fencing types in the Design Guidelines Issue 6 (linked here).

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the PPDP for guidance.

Site Access for Valuers

Individual lot boards are now installed in Stage 3 to facilitate valuers in identifying your block. If your funding requires a valuation to be completed, please inform the relevant parties that they can now access the site. However, prior to visiting, they must coordinate with Andrew Siemek from Bild Group on 0475 010 866 or andrew.siemek@bild.group.

Site Access for Soil Tests

You are now able to access your block to complete a soil test.

Stage 3 Compaction Report

The Stage 3 compaction report can be accessed via the following link.

LISA THOMPSON

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER