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April 21, 2016
How’s This For ‘Neighbourhood Character’?
Posted by gleneira under Councillor Performance, GE Planning, GE Service Performance[5] Comments
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Glen Eira Debates
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April 21, 2016 at 12:30 PM
Mckinnon road has gotta be the best. shipping containers or legoland.
April 21, 2016 at 1:16 PM
love ‘The Caulfield’. They look like they would be a million degrees on a sunny day!
April 21, 2016 at 2:08 PM
A quick count equals about 700 apartments. Anyone want to bet that there would only be about 20 or 30 three bedroom ones and close to 40% would be single bedroom cubby holes? That is what council calls “diversity”.
April 21, 2016 at 4:58 PM
This neighborhood character discussion beats me flat, because when we had neighborhood character provisions we got the worse of both worlds, bad designs with a few stuck on false looking architectural pieces of crap that degraded the neighborhood character and still does decades till this day.
We have been here before with neighborhood character and do we really want to visit this past joke, hoax or con again.
Are the 1960’s blocks of flats some now nearing half the built history of just about all Glen Eira to be considered as neighbourhood character to be admired and simulated, or do we cherry pick what we think is pretty, like high gables or tall red brick chimneys
Good architecture is enough to sustain and add value to people’s life and our neighborhoods, we should be focusing more on quality of living issues through good design like:-
Sunlight into the new and shading to the existing
Landscaping that adds value to its neighborhood
Energy efficiency of the new
Space (neighborhood) for recreation youngies and oldies and everyone in between
Sadly Glen Eira administration shows no leadership within, it’s own projects are poor in architectural value and often overscaled GESAC and Duncan Mackinnon are horrors of both design and scale.
For all my life Glen Eira has been known as the developers council among the tradies, it not by accident the forerunner of multi development Jennings started here in Caulfield. Nothing has changed.
It’s imported that everyone has their say and is listened too.
But trying to make 5 or 10 or 20 or 44 units look like a Californian Bungalow is as stupid as it is perverse.
And thank you you for placing the pictures online in a accessible way. I think some are actually visually very good and we should be distilling these design values into tangible elements.
Of course this is something council could have done to help residents along with a fair a balanced production of their review, but Mr PB wouldn’t want to overwork his near 400 PR staff in assisting the people that supposedly pay their wage would he, not on the developer council that’s for sure.
April 21, 2016 at 9:39 PM
Jesus most of these look like the aliens have landed. Yuk.