August 5, 2017
Residents: Enough Is Enough
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August 5, 2017 at 10:00 AM
Well done people. Terrific letter. How about reproducing this for Carnegie, Ormond, Elsternwick, Bentleigh East, McKinnon, Murrumbeena and the rest. Enough is enough.
August 5, 2017 at 10:35 AM
Yes indeed. A very good letter that every single resident in Glen Eira must read and apply it to their own suburb. The lack of evidence or justification applies to all suburbs. There has not been real consultation and there has not been real planning. What’s happened so far is all for show with no substance. I’m tired of being lied to and treated like a fool.
August 5, 2017 at 10:00 AM
Yep, enough is enough, I’ll be at the Thursday session for sure.
August 5, 2017 at 10:03 AM
It would be good to ring Hyams and see what weasel words he comes up.
We keep hearing that Glen Eira is going to live cast it’s council meetings, my bet this will not happen until all this planning hoax has been signed sealed and delivered to the bureaucrats. Most most residents have no idea of thet two-faced roles people like Hyams and Esacoff and Magee play with residents on planning and height issues. Saying one things face to face to residents, and voting the opposite when it matters at meetings.
Another improvement needed; would be to change our local law regarding the recording of the minutes, recording how each councillor voted on every agenda item. This would remove some of the cover, this old guard of pro-developers councillors use to cover their duplicitous actions.
August 5, 2017 at 10:12 AM
FYI – council has scheduled a Special Council Meeting this coming Tuesday night. It will convene in camera in order to discuss a ‘property’ matter. The Local Government Act requires that all Special Council meetings are advertised with notice. This was not done. It is hard to believe that something regarding ‘property’ should be so urgent that it precludes advertising as per the legislation requirements. As for what property is under discussion there is plenty of room for speculation. And we certainly doubt that council will ‘come clean’ and publish minutes that actually reveal what was decided!!!!!!!!
August 5, 2017 at 1:01 PM
Do you think they are about to flog off the Aileen st property they just bought or buy another one to create in Camden?
August 5, 2017 at 1:08 PM
Maybe it’s Esakoff again, back, trying to remove her property out of the heritage area so she came make a killing. Or Hyams trying to get a heritage property delisted so he can do another Frogmore.
I passed the Frogmore site yesterday and it sits there completely bare. Just what was the need for Pilling and Hyams to corrupted the review process that so hurried its demise?
Although better done behind locked doors so nothing leaks out, until the rubber-stamper have done their job.
August 5, 2017 at 1:14 PM
Wasn’t it the Tuesday just gone?
August 5, 2017 at 1:21 PM
yes! sorry!
August 5, 2017 at 10:09 AM
Important that people from all areas attend on Thurs as Bentleigh outcome sets the parameters for neighbouring areas
August 5, 2017 at 10:19 AM
Glen Eira’s Heritage Strategy is up for comment now, it would be good if many many residents commented on this as well.
The older shopping strops like Elsternwick, Carneigie and Glen Huntly and to some extent McKinnon and Bentleigh need there old shops protected. If we lose the charm of this old building we have near lost everything.
Look at development in and around KC’s and Aldis in Bentleigh, the street aesthetics facing centre road is as poor as it’s possible to achieve. Just a bit further down towards Wheatley Road there is no verandas so it is a wet walk at times, this is cheap and nasty development with absolutely no care taken to offer any amenity what so ever for users.
State that what draws you to these shopping strips is the old charming buildings and the pleasure of doing your shopping there.
August 5, 2017 at 11:16 AM
Agreed
August 5, 2017 at 11:41 AM
Great summary, heaps more honesty than Council provides.Highlights that so far Council has shown total disregard to community and no consideration to the important planning factors.People from all over Glen Eira should turn up to these sessions to show that we will not be spun any more rubbish. This rubbish has to be stopped.
August 5, 2017 at 12:11 PM
Everyone from different suburbs should do their best to make the very first meeting for Bentleigh next week if Council are to even contemplate taking any notice.
August 5, 2017 at 1:33 PM
This is a good letter that I hope residents take full note of. I agree as well with some of the other comments that what is in store for Bentleigh is also in store for everywhere. The neighbourhood centres are very much in danger. Council has already made its intentions clear by announcing they are happy with eight storeys in Ormond and in East Bentleigh’s Virginia Estate.
I drove down McKinnon Road yesterday and the road was partially blocked at the corner of Wheatley. The roundabout has been demolished and work is going on there. I am admittedly suspicious and cannot believe that it is coincidence when the area is now rezoned for residential that this should be suddenly happening at probably great expense to ratepayers. There was nothing wrong with the roundabout to begin with. It looks like council is determined to faciliitate as much development as it can and to give free handouts of money to anyone wanting to build.
August 5, 2017 at 3:22 PM
I like what the letter says. Development has already ruined large parts of Glen Eira, Carnegie in particular. There’s no need for more and more when population is already at bursting and way ahead of the so called quota for meeting population growth.
August 5, 2017 at 5:11 PM
Unless council and our councillor take sustainable living issue seriously there should be no movement up in height or any sizeable increase in population.
Issues that should be taken seriously like
roads safety
– over crowding in schools
– a clear pathway to resolving the lack of open space issues
– quality of air issues
– quality of storm water issues
– flooding issues
– safety for resident (particularly women at night) and this doesn’t mean sawing down ever tree and bush in every park as a scrape-goat action
– Heat island effect and rising summer temps from removing mature trees through over development, with not enough public open space to rectify this looming problem.
– A urban forest strategy that sets a percentage of tree cover for Glen Eira.
– A biodiversity strategy that is based on contemporary scientific understanding with benchmarked targets, not some made-up voodoo rubbish claims like currently we have.
– Recreation Offices that understand the demographics and needs of Glen – Eira’s population and try to provide recreational opportunities for everyone, and are not beholden to the sport crazed weekend rednecks who think they own our open spaces
– A street rubbish removal policy that actually does clean or prevent our street-scapes from looking like tip sites.
-Energy use targets that are actually met
-Water use targets that are actually met
-biodiversity targets that are actually met
– Bureaucrats that are capable and willing to deliver unbiased first class public consultation processes.
– Huge Huge reform to our local laws to help curb or balance the power differential between elected councillors the community and the Town Hall bureaucrats; that will place residents and democratic process at the centre of all decision making. Hopefully this should lead to the de-corporatisation of our town hall. This will have benefits as we all live in a community and not a corporation. Corporate methodology and it hierarchical structure was never meant’ to govern people, it evolved to manage companies for profits. Were companies have been sanctioned with government (East India Company for instance ) its ended in disaster.
This style of pseudo government cannot manage or serve a community in the way that a community needs or wants. In the end their system sidelines residents and skilfully abused them by lies, misinformation and false processes. (sounds familiar) It’s just their way of getting what they want for their reasons, what ever that maybe. This is Glen Eira now, and it will only get worse, unless we have very comprehensive local law reform.
Please add more, I’m pooped;
It is really is about time our councillors stopped wasting our and their time with silly amateur performances, and the bureaucrats start doing what they are payed to do, deliver us a sustainable livable city with a bright future. If their combined visions and or skill levels cannot accommodate and work towards achieving all the above and more, we are heading towards a environmentally devalued future and an increasingly unstable and fractious community.
August 5, 2017 at 5:53 PM
Very well said. They all need to get on with the job of representing residents and not their own agendas. They are at the crossroads as a relatively new group. They now have the choice of genuine representation and integrity or a vested interest approach with a total loss of any community respect.
August 5, 2017 at 8:57 PM
Better to have proper decent size multi level buildings more than 10 storeys with 4,5 bedrooms Apartments rather than rebuild them in 10 yrs time..