On 6 March 2025, the planning and development world was shaken up with the approval of Amendment VC267. These new changes are a slice of a bigger Plan for Victoria: part of which is to supply housing for all Victorians. With Amendment VC267 overhauling Clause 55 and introducing Clause 57, we caught up with two […]

Last year, the theme of 2024 International Women’s Day (IWD) was ‘Count Her In: Invest in Women, Accelerate Progress’ – in other words, giving women opportunities to build their capabilities, and strengthening their capacity to learn, earn and lead. These topics are always relevant to us at UPco. So, as we ready ourselves for IWD […]

At UPco, two of our Directors recently celebrated significant anniversaries: 30 years with the business for Amanda Ring, and 20 years for Hugh Smyth. We caught up with Amanda and Hugh to reflect on the journey so far: what’s changed, what’s stayed the same and how they feel about the future. Thanks for catching up, […]

While he is a country lad at heart, Robert Murphy has spent the last twenty years delivering some of Melbourne’s most exciting developments as part of the SMA Projects team. During that time, he’s worked closely with the UPco team on countless occasions and is certainly someone we now count as a friend! We sat […]