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Guy - Planning powers for Tooronga given back to Boroondara

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Media Release from Matthew Guy.  This is good, but pity it had not been done about 4 years ago.   Hulls  when Planning Minister  took it over himself and  council was out of it.   It has been a disaster.  Hope the council can salvage a bit out of it.
http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/4030-planning-powers-for-tooronga-given-back-to-boroondara.html

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Heritage Win for Clifton Hill

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IT IS GOOD TO HEAR ABOUT A WIN FOR HERITAGE - IT DOES NOT HAPPEN OFTEN BUT HERE IT IS SO CLIFTON HILL IS REJOICING

http://www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/hot-topics/heritage-win-in-clifton-hill/

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Kelvin Thomson MP: Enterprise Migration Agreement

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Kelvin Thomson does not agree with bringing in extra migrants  to work the mines when so many Australians are losing  their jobs.  He wants migration reduced   and that would certainly be good for the pressure on Melbourne re the high density development that is happening  everywhere.  

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High Noon on Melbourne's fertile fringe

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The people of Melbourne should be worried and demand of the  government that our lush fertile farming  areas around Melbourne are protected from this perpetual push for housing for yet more and more people migrating here.    Protect our precious  land, our lives may one day depend on it.  Slow the growth,  only third world countries grow like this  and we have the ability to slow it down.  Tell the government to stop it.   
 

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/city-sprawl-hits-food-bowls-20120525-1zaeq.html

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Melbourne Rushes to Meet Urban Renewal Targets

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This is the Study by the Property Council about Urban Renewal. Be alarmed as they want to RENEW us, especially where they can a make the most profit. Time to tell the government we dont want all this development in our suburbs. We want to keep out city liveable.

http://www.propertyoz.com.au/Article/NewsDetail.aspx?p=16&id=5814

 

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Kelvin Thomson on gloomy high-rise

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Great letter by Kelvin Thomson on battery kids  versus free range kids:
 
THE article ''Chasing the sun among high-rises a heated issue'' (20/5) raises very important issues about Melbourne's headlong rush to high-rise.

The loss of sunlight is a very important point. As is the fact that high-density high-rise buildings have big carbon footprints, consume more energy, generate more pollution and detract public amenity through the large shadows they cast. The proliferation of high-rise development is threatening not only our environment, but also our social fabric.

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Planning news from Sydney SOS and would you say it is the same here in Melbourne?

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We have achieved astonishing success with our long-running campaign against the practice of political donations in New South Wales.  Legislation now only allows donations by individuals and up to a maximum of $5,000 per annum.
 
Surprisingly there has been little change in planning policy actions.  The New South Wales Department of Planning continues to force high-density onto communities.  Its staff regularly call on local councils to pressure them to continue to comply with its unwanted destructive policies.
 
We believe a major part of the explanation is that Members of Parliament are captive to the bureaucracy.  These unelected officials (whose salaries are paid by us) drive administration policy to a much greater degree than we like to think.  They may be termed “civil servants” but they are neither civil nor our servants.  The boot is on the other foot.

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High Rise depriving Melbourne of sun and only the developers win.

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They are turning Melbourne city into a dank, cold and bleak place -  POOR MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE
 

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So Much For High Rise/High density - proven bad for the environment

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From the ACT government's report on carrying capacity and footprint. See pp. 33-34 at  http://www.parliament.act.gov.au/downloads/reports/CCEW06%20Ecological.pdf

The ISA 2007 study and the Australian Conservation Foundation Atlas clearly show that, in each state and territory, the population in the centre and inner suburbs of the capital city are contributing the most per person to the ecological footprint.77 For instance, within Canberra the ecological footprints of the householders of the inner suburbs of Braddon [Mark's comment: medium density] and Yarralumla [big old houses and gardens, embassies]  were 8.59 gha pp and 8.05 gha pp, respectively, and the outer areas of Tuggeranong and Banks were 6.15 gha pp and 6.07 gha pp, respectively.78

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Democratic rights under attack

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Is big business trying to curtail our democratic rights.... Read on....

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/call-to-cut-the-number-of-councils-20120320-1vhwq.html

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