Gas Connection after KDR in Victoria

Faheemzafar · Feb 05, 2026 4:04 pm

Hi all,

We have purchased a rundown house in Ringwood suburb in Victoria. The property already has an active gas connection.

We are going to do knockdown rebuild so in the new few weeks, the builder will ask us to apply for abolishment of services (gas, electricity, NBN, telephone). After abolishment, we will demolish the house and the builder will build a new house.

But both the builder and the distributor (Multinet) are not sure of we will be able to get the gas connection again because of Victorian government ban on new gas connections. They have asked me to check with the council which I will do now.

I have seen new houses being built in Melbourne after demolishing of the old houses and they have gas stoves so wondering how people are still keeping the gas mains/meter after abolishment and rebuild?

Anyone has any experience or knowledge of this particular issue, please feel free to comment.

Regards,

Schumi5 · Feb 08, 2026 12:55 pm

We had this same debate/issue with our KDRB in Donvale/Mitcham. Early discussions were that we were not going to be able to get mains gas and instead have to go with external tank. We were prepared to do this as we did not want to go induction cooktops.

Towards the midway point of the build the government kept chopping and changing what was possible with cutoff dates, new builds etc and somehow our builder was able to push it through during that time and we ended up with mains gas again(thankfully!)
Not sure what process he did unforunately so not able to help much more than that.

Faheemzafar · Feb 08, 2026 2:25 pm

Schumi5

We had this same debate/issue with our KDRB in Donvale/Mitcham. Early discussions were that we were not going to be able to get mains gas and instead have to go with external tank. We were prepared to do this as we did not want to go induction cooktops.

Towards the midway point of the build the government kept chopping and changing what was possible with cutoff dates, new builds etc and somehow our builder was able to push it through during that time and we ended up with mains gas again(thankfully!)
Not sure what process he did unforunately so not able to help much more than that.

Thank you… When exactly the builder applied for build permit? And who was the builder if I may ask? TIA