Regional Rail Link community information sessions
In line with the recent announcement of major transport plans, an NWMA member (and presumably others in Railway Place) received in the letterbox on Monday 13 July a further update about the Regional Rail Link. Items of interest include: • the two new tracks between Southern Cross Station and Sunshine will be built at surface level largely within the existing rail corridor and through the Footscray area • a new rail bridge will be built over the Maribyrnong River • there will be new dedicated rail tracks from West Footscray to Sunshine • existing V-Line track will be used between
CoRBA Meeting with Lindsay Tanner
Last Tuesday, 8 June 2010, the Coalition of Residents and Business Associations - Melbourne (CORBA) met with the Federal Member for Melbourne, Lindsay Tanner at his Melbourne electorate office. The North and West Melbourne Association (NWMA) was represented by Kevin Chamberlin, Vice Chair and Bill Cook, Treasurer. CORBA had meet with Lindsay previously on the issue of Melbourne City Council (MCC) reform. He was very supportive of the need for reform and offered strong views on some aspects of the problem. The CORBA position paper on MCC reform, supported by the NWMA , is on the website of CoRBA (
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
Council support mandatory height limit and open space for La Trobe Close
The City of Melbourne Planning Committee met on 1st Dec 2009, the LaTrobe Close Re Development was one of the items on the agenda. The NWMA supports the provision of social housing in North and West Melbourne, though we insist that government adopts its own policy of social housing integrated with private housing, that quality be maintained, that there be adequate provision of open space and that government keeps adequate statistics of the quantity of social housing and subsidised housing in each residential area. Constancy of communication is so important - in hind-sight we all should have been copying some of our early
Latest Resident Meeting on Latrobe Close on December 3
On Thursday 3 December 2009, the NWMA in conjunction with the Latrobe Close Group, convened a public meeting at the Castle Hotel, attended by 24 people. Latrobe Close is bounded by Chetwynd, Courtney and Howard Streets North Melbourne, where the State Government, with Federal Government funding propose to construct a seven storey block of residential units. This proposal has been opposed by the Council of the City of Melbourne. As a result of public protest and pressure applied to the local member, the Minister for Housing, Richard Wynne has agreed to defer a decision on the this development to allow
LaTrobe Close Redevelopment-meeting with Bronwyn Pike 1/12/2009
A briefing meeting on Latrobe Close was held for local residents at the office of local member Bronwyn Pike at 6.00pm on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 with between fifty and sixty people from the surrounding area attending. As well as Minister Pike and representatives from her office, there was a representative from Minister Wynn’s office, project team members from the Department of Human Services and representatives from town planning consultants, Davis Langdon. Despite the number of experts in attendance, many of the questions asked by the locals failed to receive convincing answers. It was all about trusting the experts, who