Report from the 2015 Homelessness Action Group Community Forum
On the 19th of November 2015, the Homelessness Action Group held a community forum. Minutes below: [gview file="https://nwma.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015-HAG-Community-Forum.pdf"]
NWMA’s leaflet on the East West Link EWL
NWMA has formulated a leaflet for distribution to the North and West Melbourne community at the annual Spring Fling. [gview file="https://nwma.org.au/wp-content/uploads/EWL-brochure-p1final.pdf" save="1"] [gview file="https://nwma.org.au/wp-content/uploads/EWL-brochure-p2final.pdf" save="1"]
In-Home Display Technology Pilot (Free trial)
The City of Melbourne and Untapped Energy are working together to run an energy usage pilot project within households in the municipality. Untapped Energy is a business formed and run by university students. This pilot program provides Untapped Energy staff with the opportunity to use their technical skills while providing City of Melbourne residents with a valuable service. The pilot program involves arranging for In-Home Display (IHD) devices to be placed inside residential households. The devices display real-time electricity consumption data for the household. This pilot program seeks to understand what impact access to real-time data has on household electricity
Association Reps Meet Planning Minister Advisors
On Friday November 4, Association Chair, Kevin Chamberlin, and Bill Cook met with influential members of the Planning Minister, Matthew Guy’s staff. They were Daniel Parsons, Ministerial Advisor and Adrian Salmon, Assistant Director, Statutory Approvals, Department of Planning and Community Development. The meeting covered issues that the Association has experienced in recent times about the operation of the planning scheme. These are covered in the following link Parsons3Nov11. The officials put forward Government policy, such as the promotion of the role of local government in the planning process. They appreciated the clarity of our position, which they agreed was different
VEC Review of City of Melbourne Wards and Councillor numbers
The electoral representation review (ERR) of Melbourne City Council will commence on Monday, 24 October. The review will consider the appropriate number of the councillors for the municipality and whether the City should be divided into wards. For more information click here: http://www.vec.vic.gov.au/reviews/Melbournerr.html Please read the attached document which gives you some background about this review, including: What will the Melbourne City Council Review cover. What is the electoral representation review process for Melbourne City Council. How to make a submission to the Melbourne City Council. Representation Review? We would like to canvass member's views about this review. If you
Update on Proposed Woolworth’s Development
The local resident's group RAID, Residents about Integrated Development, have organised two major meetings in their campaign to modify the proposed development for site at 101 - 117 Canning Street, North Melbourne. [mappress mapid="2"width="100%" adaptive="true"] The following link gives a brief report on these meetings and outlines the eight major questions the group wished to ask the Woolworth's representatives at the meeting: Woolworth's update20oct11 The Group has produced a poster which highlights what is and is not acceptable as development in our local area. The Association is supportive of the principles underlying this approach to planning: FINAL_RAID Poster
Agenda for June 2011 general meeting: Structure Plan briefing.
The Association has arranged for David Mayes and the Strategic Planning Team from the City of Melbourne to brief members and other interested residents on the contents of the two structure plans that affect our area. These are the City North Structure Plan and the Arden Macaulay Structure Plan. The meeting will be held at the Library at 7.30pm on June 21 with general business until 8.00pm when we can move into the larger upstairs library space for the briefing on the Structure Plans. There have been a number of briefings already held but the Association believes that the implications of
Win on Council Reform
After ten years of effort by both the NWMA and CoRBA to obtain a review of the structure and electoral processes of the City of Melbourne, we have at last achieved some success. The State Government has announced a VEC review of the City of Melbourne, particularly focussing on wards and voter numbers. This is a good first step toward looking at other important issues that affect the way the Council works and relates to its communities and stakeholders. We congratulate the Melbourne Leader on the support that it has provided to raise awareness of these issues around the performance
Rally At Zagame site.
On Saturday 20th November 2010, a crowd of over 80 attended the protest rally at 577 King Street, West Melbourne. It was great turnout and many attendees held placards to inform both the Zagame staff and the passing traffic of the issues relating to this ten storey high rise development located in a Design and Development Overlay zone that is supposed to be limited to four. Unfortunately, the media failed to arrive but some active discussion and questioning took place during the rally, reflecting the serious concern of those attending. Marchers pacing up and down in front of the car
Meet the Candidates.
A very successful event was held in the Supper Room of the North Melbounrne Town Hall on Tuesday night. All seven candidates were in attendance and most questions were responded to by all. The attendance was around 150, which was anticipated by the Association which negotiated the larger space than the upstairs meeting room. We had the usual interjectors but there were some outstanding questions from a broad ranging audience, including many from Kensington.