Willow Development Group has secured planning approval through the Victorian government’s Great Design Fast Track pathway for an ultra-premium residential development at 7-9 Ormsby Grove, Toorak.
The approved scheme will add $60 million to the developer’s pipeline and comprises a collection of just nine house-sized residences across five levels.
The mix includes seven three-bedroom residences, one two-bedroom residence and a four-bedroom penthouse-style home.
Every residence has been configured to offer the scale, privacy and amenity traditionally associated with a standalone home.
More than 500 square metres of private open space will be delivered across the collection, reflecting a landscape-led approach that defines the project.
The approval follows Willow’s acquisition and amalgamation of eight individual apartments across the 1,020sqm site in November 2025.
Just a short walk from Toorak Village, the park-fronted address offers a rare opportunity to deliver a residential offering of exceptional scale in one of Melbourne’s most tightly held suburbs.
Willow Director Will Naughton said assembling the site was the hardest part of the project.
“Sites of this scale don’t come up often in Toorak because ownership is so fragmented,” said Naughton.
He said the Great Design Fast Track then provided a clear, design-led route to a permit, with the project moving from acquisition to approval in under 12 months.
Detailed design and documentation will begin immediately, with the residences expected to come to market in early 2027 and construction to start shortly after.
The project has been designed by DKO Architecture, with Dangar Barin Smith appointed as landscape architects.
The scheme offers a considered response to its park-side setting, balancing architectural refinement with landscape, liveability and enduring design quality.
Willow’s Head of Design and Construction, Paolo Frigenti, said the brief to the design team was clear.
“The brief to DKO and Dangar Barin Smith was nine homes that live like houses, not nine apartments that happen to be large,” said Frigenti.
Frigenti said the Great Design Fast Track places design quality at the centre of the approval, and that review by the Office of the Victorian Government Architect tested the scheme and improved it.
The development sits on a 1,020 square metre site facing the park, close to the amenity of Toorak Village.
