Our final post for 2015 is very apposite. It sums up:
- The disaster that is the zones
- The failure of council to undertake any measures to ameliorate the damage
- The continued and unabated destruction of huge swathes of Glen Eira
- The creation of a ‘second class citizenry’ that does not deserve open space, landscaping and on site parking
- How out of date the current planning scheme is since it states that Glen Eira can meet its housing requirements with an average of 600 new dwellings PER YEAR!
- The utter failure to provide quality strategic planning, and
- Councillors who have failed in their duty to insist on open and transparent government
What we present below are the applications that have come in from October to the end of December 2015. That is two months worth! All have yet to be decided but we anticipate that 95% at least will eventually be granted a permit. Please remember that this is only the ‘snap shot’ of one suburb! Thus in two months one small suburb of 3.8 square km is to contain the entire new housing that was mapped out in the planning scheme for an entire municipality!
Here are the applications in no particular order –
PS: we have ignored the scores and scores of applications for 2 double storeys which would bring the total up far more.
285-287 Neerim Road CARNEGIE VIC 3163 – 6 storey, 61 dwellings,
315-317 Neerim Road CARNEGIE VIC 3163 – 7 storey 26 dwellings
363R Neerim Road CARNEGIE VIC 3163 – 3 storey, 4 dwellings
14-22 Woorayl Street CARNEGIE VIC 3163 – 12 storey, 134 dwellings, amended plans put in
116-118 Grange Road CARNEGIE VIC 3163 – 31 dwellings
1 Beena Avenue CARNEGIE VIC 3163 – 5 three storey attached dwellings
10-12 Anzac Street CARNEGIE VIC 3163 – 6 double storeys
1240-1248 Glen Huntly Road CARNEGIE VIC 3163 – 6 storeys, 117 dwellings
30-32 Ames Avenue CARNEGIE VIC 3163 – 3 storey 28 dwellings
26 Ames Avenue CARNEGIE VIC 3163 – 4 double storeys
8-12 Elliott Avenue CARNEGIE VIC 3163 – 4 storeys 41 dwellings
1 Tranmere Avenue CARNEGIE VIC 3163 – 4 storey, 15 dwellings
5 Tranmere Avenue CARNEGIE VIC 3163 – 4 dwellings of three storeys each
22-28 Jersey Parade CARNEGIE VIC 3163 – 4 storey, 39 dwellings
TOTAL – 515 DWELLINGS!
Glen Eira Debates 
December 31, 2015 at 10:58 AM
No it’s not sustainable on any level
December 31, 2015 at 12:27 PM
I seriously doubt that those who make the decisions have any idea of what sustainable means and how to quantify it. Neerim Road alone will have another 600 apartments in the very near future. How much will it cost to upgrade infrastructure and do they even know when the numbers are at capacity? I would bet they don’t have a clue. Next there is the question of density. What numbers are sustainable when you don’t have any design standards and no open space and cars everywhere that have to park on the streets. The way I see it is that residents can look forward to more and more one bedroom get rich quick schemes that will ultimately become the slum areas of Melbourne.
December 31, 2015 at 8:33 PM
Hyams zones to support liberal policy of helping
businesses has caused disaster for all residents in GE. Now we read that Hyams moved a motion to use guns in Caulfield park and the liberal gang with the help of Pilling suppressed Delahunty’s arguments to make the risk paper prepared by officers for public information. Pilling helped the gang as he deliberately helped the gang. Any guesses?
January 1, 2016 at 8:46 AM
Delahunty will do anything to get her name in the paper, be interviewed on the radio or better still end upon the TV news. Her modus operandi is out there for all to see.
January 1, 2016 at 3:32 PM
Certainly is out there to see. A councillor prepared to fight against the reactionaries. A councillor true to her pre-election mantra – note turncoat Pilling.
What would you prefer, Lipshutz, Hyams, Esakoff clones there to serve the administration (MODERATORS: rest of sentence deleted)
January 2, 2016 at 6:43 AM
She is obviously distributing press releases to ensure her activities are noticed. Nothing wrong with self promotion. If all councillors did this the whole thing wouldn’t work.
January 3, 2016 at 12:00 PM
So informing constituency of her activities is in some way a bad thing!!!! If you think all politicians -municipal, state or federal – don’t do that you’re living in a parallel universe. Hyams is a propagandist by profession.
January 3, 2016 at 8:13 PM
You must be an idiot abroad and a fool. She is keeping the gang in line and that is why Delahunty has gone into elections and will go places. Watch this space. Who was called the rotten apple in the last Council elections?
January 3, 2016 at 9:51 PM
Anyone that puts forward an idea that does not line up with your thoughts is an idiot. No one said she was not doing a good job. You are behaving like a bully. I hope you don’t take yourself too serious.
December 31, 2015 at 9:19 PM
Glen Eira Debates – Was it you who said that Glen Eira would one day look like Calcutta before the new zones were kicked in? It is surely looking that way. Carnegie is first Calcutta!!!
January 1, 2016 at 8:51 AM
Going to turn really bad when the sewers overflow. The stench will woft into the protected zones. The council will need a new law to stop this happening.
January 1, 2016 at 11:31 AM
Hyams will go down in history for creating this stench. As a liberal voter he and his gang have destroyed our homes to help the builders to support the liberals.
January 1, 2016 at 8:54 AM
I’ve spent a fair bit of time in Calcutta and find it better than Carnegie
January 1, 2016 at 11:33 AM
Lobo used the phrase first.
January 1, 2016 at 5:53 PM
Wait and see, the General Residential zones will cover more streets and will change them to Growth zones. Neighbourhood Residential zones will also change to General Residential zones. Magee wants more people in Glen Eira against people’s wish.
January 1, 2016 at 6:41 PM
It’s been Kolkata for more than 20 years, pronounced KOL – CAT – A and not “Cal – cut – ta” ….. so I don’t think Lobo has ever been near the city.
What’s surprising is no one has bothered to point out this persistent demeaning slur is just another discriminatory rant from (MODERATORS: rest of sentence deleted)
January 3, 2016 at 2:38 PM
Great foresight!
January 1, 2016 at 11:32 AM
The first test for the new ceo is going to be to change the mentality that has allowed this sort of thing to happen. She also has to make sure that top line quality people come in who know something about planning and who are committed to listening to residents. Then it is up to voters to make sure that all of these councillors are not re-elected.
January 1, 2016 at 11:42 AM
Newton may have documented his manifesto. He may pass it on to the new CEO for her consideration.
January 2, 2016 at 11:06 PM
Doubt that. Newton refused an exit interview. Very churlish or trying to cover up. No loyalty there to people who have paid his wages for the past 20 years.
January 3, 2016 at 2:45 PM
Newton cannot do much, it is the gang who controlled him and despite his recommendations as per the risk report not to go ahead with guns in public park like many other decisions, he was fed up with councillors overriding him. Exit interview should be insisted by the minister in charge of local government who should wake up to the close door meeting:
January 2, 2016 at 4:55 PM
Unsustainable. Out of control development. Lets make 2016 the year to stop this rampant development.
January 2, 2016 at 7:27 PM
Remove all the 9 bozos from the Council and replace them with robots who will do the job. They have destroyed Glen Eira.
January 2, 2016 at 7:39 PM
Sustainable living covers everything not just the built environment, more important are fresh air, good water, open space, and good social development, without these things nothing is sustainable. The bean counters at the town hall just look at the money and deliver poor or unsustainable projects. Often if not most of the time, sustainability could be delivered at less cost in dollars, with less harm to the environment. But they wouldn’t want you to know that small fact.
January 3, 2016 at 2:34 PM
A big thank you for the important information provided by the person or persons that run this site. It must require an enormous commitment of personal effort and time for research. Councillors can criticise it all they wish, but they should not underestimate readers’ ability to read the opinions and then make up their own minds about the issues – and then, if in doubt, do their own research. So a big ‘thank you’.
January 3, 2016 at 8:52 PM
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