And just for the record, here’s what’s currently on the market in Bent St or recently been sold. Folks are getting out whilst the going is good. No one wants to live with a four storey box next door to them, opposite them, or behind them – not when they weren’t told a single thing, weren’t consulted, and must now bear witness to the creation of our future slums. This pattern is being repeated in Mavho Street as well and will soon come to a street near YOU!
Unit 3. No.7;
Unit 5. No 7;
Unit 10.No.9;
No.10;
No.12;
No. 14/16/18;
Unit 8.No.21;
No.23;
No.26;
No.28;
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Glen Eira Debates 
October 9, 2014 at 10:12 AM
I feel very sorry for all those people who have spent a lot of money renovating their homes and who could have been living in these areas for 20 or 30 years and thinking this is where they want to stay. They won’t get their money back very soon if a developer buys it and to move could cost them another 50 or 60 thousand in stamp duty. I don’t care how good a 4 storey design is. If it sits right on top a single storey then there has to be overlooking and overshadowing and car parking problems.
On design all I’m seeing is flat roofed places because they have to get everything under the 13.5 limit. These are so ugly and I think that they have to end up with water problems not clearing the roof area like a pitched roof would. It is awful design but if they want to make a lot of money then they have to get as many apartments in as they can and the best way to do this is to have a flat roof.
October 9, 2014 at 10:14 AM
I like to think that some developers are going to go bust because too much of this crap is being built. However this is being sold to China. It would be pocket change to them to by all of Glen Eira!. Even though it is illegal for them to buy an existing property under FIRB rules. The only way to stop this is to outlaw foreign buyers all together. Surely Australians should be able to buy a property.
October 9, 2014 at 11:26 AM
Yup, the bubble will burst soon enough but the crap will stay. It’s already there – a blight on all suburbs. Families get out and renters move in. They don’t give a stuff about the place and it very quickly becomes rundown, unkempt and falling to pieces.
October 9, 2014 at 10:15 AM
Residents are well aware of the impact of the zones, this ad confirms it yet Council persists in spruiking that the zones are not the cause of this.
It really is time these Councillors removed their head from their R. Soles.
October 9, 2014 at 12:32 PM
There is nowhere in Melbourne, within around 700mts of a shopping strip or Railway station where you cannot build 4 stories. Stop thinking you are special. Buyers beware. Council is right, and this is good planning.
October 9, 2014 at 12:57 PM
Really?!!!!!!!!
You desperately need to have a look at the Bayside arrangements as just one example. Bayside has decided that one of its major shopping strips – Hampton Street/Willis St. precinct. should not be zoned as RGZ but instead GRZ2 with a height limit OF 11METRES. In contrast Glen Eira has plonked RGZ of 13.5 metres not only along its premier shopping strips of Centre Road, Glen Huntly Road, etc. but also many of the surrounding streets which are far away from any rail station. Of course, Bayside went to the trouble of having structure plans and actually analysing their suburbs very carefully. Glen Eira, apart from its secrecy, didn’t have the nous, acumen, ability or will to do any of the necessary preliminary and up to date analysis. Near enough was good enough we suspect – and if everyone was in such a hurry to be the first council in the state to claim the glory, then no wonder the stuff ups pile up!
October 9, 2014 at 1:55 PM
Good planning as you call it should be about everything that goes to make up a specific area. That would range from enough open space to urban design to parking to traffic and to infrastructure. I can’t find anywhere where this council has seriously looked at any of these associated things and come up with viable solutions that aren’t all ad hoc and piecemeal. What we’ve got now isn’t good planning by any definition. It’s flying by the seat of your pants and then hoping that nobody notices. If worst comes to worst, then there is the token attempt to address something like saying there won’t be any residential parking permits given out for certain developments. That’s not enough by a long shot.
October 10, 2014 at 7:15 AM
I agree. Let’s be very clear about ‘planning’. What we have is the ‘planners’ vision of the future, not the community’s. who are these people? what have they been taught? what experience of the world do they have? Even planning academics challenge this appalling ‘vision’ that has been inflicted on residents of this city. What we need is a vision by the people for the people! People, ordinary people can and do understand this stuff so why have we been excluded from creating this vision. We pay these people yet we get nothing back but a ‘their ‘vision’ which is leading to the destruction of the places we call (or for an increasing number – used to call) home
October 10, 2014 at 9:03 AM
You will fit well in a new version of dumb and dumber.
October 10, 2014 at 10:33 AM
Actually Anonymous, it’s not a matter of being “special”. What you are seeing is the residents’ reaction to years of unsubstantiated “trust us” and “superior planning” spin that has been graphically brought down by Council’s inept zone implementation.
Residents, confronted with the impact of the zone implementation, are undertaking a steep planning learning curve. They are learning what Glen Eira could have done and what it has not done. They are not liking what they are seeing. They are questioning and challenging Council and taking full advantage of modern technology to do so. It does not signify that they consider themselves “special” but rather a growing awareness of the need for change and willingness to pursue it.
It raises the question of what will Council do – will it continue to ignore residents and persist in following it’s own agenda or will it do what it proclaims it does, ie. actively engage residents in it’s decision making processes and propose amendments.
October 9, 2014 at 9:03 PM
I took a walk down Mavho Street late yesterday afternoon to have a look at what’s going on. A car pulled up and a twenty something young lady jumped out with a sign that read “forthcoming auction”. She started tying this to one of the houses along the street. I watched her and then the owner of the house came out. He told me that he had bought the house 14 months ago but he was now selling because on his right there was going to be a three storey development and opposite him another three storey development. What literally broke the camel’s back for him was that his back yard was now going to be crowded out with a four storey development in Loranne St, the next street along. He said that that was no way to bring up kids and the traffic was already shocking so what would it be like with heaps of new dwellings.
The other thing that struck me as I walked along Mavho was the number of auctions that had just happened or were about to happen. People are selling and getting out. It’s as plain as the nose on your face and it is all because of the zones. The chap told me that some poor bugger had paid over a million for a unit a few weeks back. I would bet that they had no idea what zoning the street was in and are they in for some hell of a surprise.