PS: Below is a map produced by Monash Uni of Melbourne’s ‘vulnerable’ areas to heat exposure. Readers will see that Carnegie, major parts of Bentleigh East, and the Caulfield North areas even before the 2046 dwellings arrive as part of the Caulfield Village, are given the highest danger ratings. And all this whilst Glen Eira Council still refuses to introduce a Significant Tree Register that actually has some bite and prevents moonscaping. This map also highlights how planning has directly contributed to this via the inequities of Minimal Change versus Housing Diversity. See: http://www.mappingvulnerabilityindex.com/home/melbournevi
Glen Eira Debates 
February 18, 2014 at 6:33 PM
Hardly surprising when suburbs are turned into literally concrete slums with no trees and no open space. With this bunch at the helm it will only get worse.
February 19, 2014 at 8:28 AM
Concrete and no trees, this is Mayor Pilling dream world
February 18, 2014 at 6:57 PM
It can be very confronting—oppressive even—to walk along Dandenong Rd in warmer weather to avail oneself of the few non-food services remaining in Carnegie. The heat bounces off the buildings at pedestrians, who are also assaulted by the noise of traffic hurtling past at 80+ kmh. The footpath is narrow, often cluttered with rubbish bins that apparently have no off-street storage space, and a bare[!] minimum of vegetation providing no shade—exactly the sort of outcome our Mayor has encouraged. In his parallel universe, the world is automatically a better place if Council encourages multiunit development at 100% site coverage with inadequate parking and no landscaping. The Housing Diversity policy was a crock of shit from the day it was conceived.
I hope people appreciate the effort GERA is making to inform the community about MRC, C60, and the current Development Plan. Council itself has made little effort to inform the community about the criteria that should be used when assessing the Development Plan, or even the criteria that the decision-maker [Council?] will use to assess the Plan. While I realise GECC isn’t particularly sophisticated in its use of Information Technology, it should be able to do better than scanning paper documents to generate bloated PDFs. Vector formats are far more efficient than scanned images for line diagrams.
February 18, 2014 at 8:43 PM
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/central/minister-calls-stonnington-council-on-inaction-over-planning/story-fngnvlpt-1226830322056
February 19, 2014 at 8:31 AM
“The mayor is not in control of his own planning scheme,” he said, quote from Minister Guy
My God what world does this bloke live in
February 19, 2014 at 8:37 AM
Even if GE’s tree register is put in place, it will not and can not protect much, it won’t stop moon scaping. If it protects one tree every square kilometre, I will be suprised. Lets see if the Green Mayor can use his sway with the gang to get the tree register running.
February 19, 2014 at 9:56 AM
Given the recent Caulfield Park tree massacre, the Green Mayor has no intention of even trying to use the little sway he has
February 19, 2014 at 11:46 AM
Whilst we’re here add Centenary Park, Koornang & Lord park to his green crimes of tree massacres.
February 20, 2014 at 12:33 AM
Also ad his suggestion that visitors to the Morton Ave units use the Carnegie RAILWAY CARPARK IF THEY LIKE. gREEN WHAT A JOKE!!!!