The following is taken from the Moonee Valley Council website. Comparisons between Glen Eira’s and Moonee Valley’s attempts to safeguard social amenity for residents is self-evident.
Planning & Building
Draft master plan and rezoning for Moonee Valley Racecourse
29 July update
The State Government’s Advisory Committee has commenced a six week consultation process on the Moonee Valley Racecourse revised Master Plan and Council’s proposed heritage controls for the site. Residents living around the site would have received something in the mail from the Advisory Committee.
The community is encouraged to view the documents and put in a submission to the Advisory Committee.
Council is currently working on its own submission as part of this process.
Information sessions
To help the community stay informed and to understand the process, we are holding information sessions at the Clocktower Centre on Mt Alexander Road Moonee Ponds.
Sessions are:
- Sunday, 11 August, 2pm-4pm
- Thursday, 15 August, 6.30pm-8.30pm
To RSVP contact 9243 8888 or email mvrcmasterplan@mvcc.vic.gov.au
Council continues to be concerned about the major information gaps in the revised version of the Master Plan. These gaps and concerns are summarised below in the 18 June update.
More information on consultation process, how to have your say as well as copies of the Master Plan and heritage amendment documents can be found on the DPCD website.
18 June update
Council has responded to the questions asked by the State Government’s Advisory Committee about the revised racing club’s master plan.
While the revised master plan does make some concessions in terms of the scale of the proposed development, it still does not address some key issues that Council previously raised with the club. There are still concerns that the proposed master plan does not provide enough detail. Some of the gaps include:
Car parking and traffic congestion
The revised plan does not adequately show how the substantial increase in vehicles in the area will be managed. This includes both daily vehicle movements and vehicle movements when events and races are taking place.
Public access and safety
Council has concerns over the proposed access to the racecourse, where the majority of patrons would be funneled through a single entry point.
Layout of the site, new residential buildings and the new grandstand
Council doesn’t feel that the proposed layout is the best outcome for the site, and it is of concern that there would potentially be a negative impact on neighbouring properties.
Lack of significant open space
The location and size of open space within the site is insufficient.
Public transport capacity
The revised plan has still not addressed how the significant increase in demand for public transport in the area would be managed.
Drainage and infrastructure impacts
The site has significant drainage issues that have not been considered in the design of the master plan.
Heritage and significant trees
The proposed development would not retain any important heritage features of the site.
We are now waiting for the Advisory Committee to confirm the next stages in the process and dates of when they will undertake community consultation.
Glen Eira Debates 
August 2, 2013 at 1:25 PM
Things like traffic, drainage, open space which Moonee valley lists are exactly the things ignored by Glen Eira. They accepted holus bolus the crap proposals by the mrc and then rigged it so that the gang would have the final say.
August 2, 2013 at 4:05 PM
Anyone know when this is going to start?
August 2, 2013 at 9:15 PM
No body knows when, however the mrc has the fully backing from the gang who are appointed by the liberal state government and are serving mrc (MODERATORS: rest of sentence deleted). One needs to be liberal to be a trustee.
August 3, 2013 at 7:42 AM
Glen Eira Council should hang its head in shame over its handling of the infamous C60 (Caulfield Village Proposal) and it justly deserves to hang its head just solely on the basis of the way it handled it (secretive committee comprising – Lipshutz, Hayms Esakoff and Pilling set up using highly suspect conflict of interest (trustees) or winky pop arguments, secretive negotiatons with the MRC, etc. etc.), totally ignored any impact from the previously approved Monash Uni development, incomplete/inadequate analysis of traffic and parking – the list goes on and on. Even today the full details of Council’s approval are not known (eg. on site car parking provisions have never been formally stated just that it is higher than any comparable development. However, Council also went to great lengths to point out that it “skilfully” negotiated that the MRC would pay ($40 per sign) to implement a residential car parking scheme in surrounding streets).
When you make a comparison with Moonee Valley and their handling of their racecourse development, then Glen Eira’s handling of C60 deserves to be enshrined in the Developer’s Hall of Fame as a shining example of how a Council can aid an abet a developer by playing down a development, providing minimal information which verged on misleading, and in general railroading it through. David Southwick, also deserves a mention – he campaigned against the development (“I will stop the land swap”) but was one of the first hailing Council’s go ahead decision.
August 3, 2013 at 12:34 PM
The secrets still continue…According to their “Non answer” to a resident’s question lately it is a funny thing but three councillors represent us at the Caulfield Racecourse Trustees meetings but they are unable to ever give a report.
August 3, 2013 at 2:58 PM
Disgruntled – Remember Lipshultz, Hyams, Esakoff and Southwick are members of the liberal party to the vote on C60 and the gang stick together. How many times have you seen them disagreeing in the Council? The Councillors promise the impossible at the time of voting with false hope that they will oppose inappropriate Developments etc. Recently I read somewhere that Hyams commented about inappropriate developments and he said words to the effect – we need to approve or else we will end up refusing every proposal to develop. Instead of brooding on this forum, you could seriously consider putting up a banner during election process to vote out the candidate who go against the wishes of residents and those who belong to the liberal gang and vote in blocks. We can keep writing until the cows come home and the gangs is certainly aware of this.
August 3, 2013 at 6:45 PM
You sound like you’re fixated on the libs. The labs on this council don’t have that much to be proud of either. Everything goes through unanimously most of the time. That includes libs and labs.