Feasibility is the silent veto on every ambitious project in Melbourne right now. Construction costs up 30% since COVID, banks retreating from development lending, a $50 billion gap being filled by expensive non bank finance, and NCC 2025 compliance costs blowing up models written six months ago. 

Behind the maths, good design quietly gets stripped back, public space gets cut, and ambitious planning outcomes get traded away before a project even reaches a permit. Developers, architects, planners, financiers, lawyers and quantity surveyors are all having this conversation separately. Putting them in one room to say it out loud, and ask what needs to change, would be genuinely rare.

The conversation will cover:

• What's actually killing good projects at the feasibility stage, and whether it's cost, finance, regulation, or all three at once.

• How architects and developers can work together earlier to protect design intent when the numbers get tight.

• What role local government can play in making good projects viable rather than just approvable.

• What needs to change, in policy, in finance, or in how the industry works together, to get good places built again.