State breaks promise on urban sprawl-PPL
Protectors of Public Lands Victoria Inc. MEDIA RELEASE 29 JULY 2010 PLANNING CATASTOPHE FOR MELBOURNE AS VC 68 PASSES PARLIAMENT This morning Planning Minister Madden’s revised Planning Amendment, now re-badged VC 68, was fast tracked through Parliament with the support of the coalition - Liberals and Nationals – who had, over the past year, held out against inducements to approve this toxic planning amendment. (Only the Greens and DLP MP’s stood firm.) This represents a catastrophe for Melbourne as it will see rezoning of land from rural to residential on the City’s fringe and so extend our notorious
TPM-2010-15 Zagame – Corner Roden and King through to Stanley Street.
West Melbourne has been jolted into the reality of planning politics in the twenty-first century with official support for the ten storey development on the Zagame site in King Street by both the State Government and the Melbourne City Council. If approved, this project establishes a precedent for wholesale high rise redevelopment of West Melbourne and North Melbourne, at heights and shapes that were not possible under previous planning regimes. It introduces all that is ugly, intrusive and inefficient in building form and will do little to raise overall standards of amenity for inner city residents. Look at Docklands and
Municipal Strategic Statement Consultatiion
The City of Melbourne is holding a consultation on the MSS at the Melbourne Town Hall. This is a matter of great importance to the planning regime that will exist in the future for North asnd West Melbourne and for the whole municipality. See the City of Melbourne Website www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/BuildingandPlanning/Planning/planningschemeamendments/Pages/C162.aspx Information sessions Information sessions will be held at the Yarra Room, Level 2, Melbourne Town Hall, 120 Swanston Street, Melbourne, on the following dates: Residents Wednesday 21 July 6pm to 7.30pm RSVP by Friday 16 July to mss@melbourne.vic.gov.au Planning professionals and all businesses Wednesday 28 July 8.30am to 10am RSVP
Westlink consultation displays in July.
A series of public information displays is being held on the route options for WestLink. It would appear that Westlink are not concerned about the despatch of 60,000 cars from the tunnel into our area and are not holding a local consultation display for us. Association members are encouraged to attend to raise these issues on our behalf. Members of the community are encouraged to come and talk directly with the project team, view large maps of the route options and see an overview of the work we have done so far. The sessions are a chance to provide direct
Police Blitz on Hoons
The Association has been contacted by East Melbourne Police regarding a blitz that they are holding between 29 June and 10 July 2010 targeting excessive noise from hoon behaviour across the Melbourne municipality. The contact is Senior Constable Arthur Macridis And he can be reached at 96371100. They encourage reports of hoon behaviour that they can follow up.
Road Tunnels – Leader article
We also draw your attention to an article in the Melbourne Leader indicating that the status of the East-West tunnel link between the eastern freeway and Footscray is not dead as the Government had led us to believe, but is the Stage 2 follow-on for the currently being planned Westlink project proposed to link West Footscray under the Maribyrnong River to the Port ( somewhere between Dynon and Footscray Roads). We encourage members to express their opinion on the Leader's blog, which can be done at the end of the article. Melbourne Leader: funding plea puts east-west tunnel back on
46 Villiers Street, North Melbourne
The Committee would like to draw the members attention to a planning application for 46 Villiers Street North Melbourne for an eight storey development of 15 apartments with a 100% waiver of car-parking requirements, on a very small site. Note that this is alongside an A-graded heritage residence. There appears to be a pattern of over-development in this application and Latrobe Close and some other applications that are currently in the pipeline, that is of concern to the Association.
LaTrobe Close Meeting
Meeting of NWMA and LaTrobe Close Collective to discuss future action re LaTrobe Close. The meeting is to be held at BRISK, 364-366 Victoria Street North Melbourne at 6 pm on Thursday 27th May 2010.
La Trobe Close cartoon
198 units at 210 Chetwynd St: too dense State Labour is doing a Windsor Hotel and Federal Labour is not listening, not even to Council! Have look at the cartoon to the right. Click on cartoon to expand your view.
La Trobe Close submission to Minister Richard Wynn
The NWMA's submission sent on the 15 January 2010 to the Hon Richard Wynne, Minister for Housing on the proposed redevelopment of La Trobe Close. For readers information Dear Minister Re 210-232 Chetwynd Street, 21-43 Courtney Street and 181-197 Howard Street, North Melbourne. We wish to make the following submission to the Minister for Housing, Richard Wynne MP, on the Government’s proposal for the Latrobe Close redevelopment on the corner of Howard, Chetwynd and Courtney Streets, North Melbourne. The North and West Melbourne Association (NWMA), through its predecessor the North Melbourne Association, was established in 1967 and has operated continuously