The Elsternwick draft concept plans are ‘interesting’ to say the least. First off there is the admission how badly this council and its zones architects stuffed up in 2013. When an activity centre has so many areas covered by Heritage Overlays, Newton, Akehurst, Hyams, Delahunty, Magee and Esakoff, all saw fit to go ahead and allow these areas to be zoned as Residential Growth Zone (RGZ). Thankfully the current plans attempt to redress this incompetence. However, they do a lot more ‘damage’ elsewhere in another example of clearing the ground for major high rise development!
Here is a summary of what is proposed –
- As with Carnegie, the central shopping strip will have 3-4 storey (orange) but some of this strip will allow 8 storeys directly behind Glen Huntly Road (ie Sinclair and Beavis Streets) which abut heritage areas. Thus like Carnegie, heritage areas will be overshadowed by anything up to 8 storeys.
- Several heritage sites along Nepean Highway will be, as with Carnegie, directly overshadowed by 12 storeys
- The ‘borders’ of the activity centre have, like Bentleigh, mushroomed out to practically double the size – now extending to Glen Eira Road.
- Ripon Grove and Gordon Street will now also become 8 storeys (from the current 4 storeys) and once more they sit alongside Heritage areas.
- The most startling changes will occur all along Horne Street to Nepean Highway. These sites can now become 12 storeys – again encircling previous NRZ zones that are now upgraded to 4 storeys.
- The amount of land now given the go-ahead for 12 storeys is alarming!
- Possibly the most important change is the inevitable rezoning of those areas currently marked as C2Z to Commercial 1. This would allow residential and the height proposed is 12 storeys (ie along Nepean Highway).
The map below shows one example of what is envisaged. The yellow markings indicate some sites which are now being upgraded from 2 storeys to 4 storeys.
Glen Eira Debates 
August 16, 2017 at 11:05 AM
this zoning is outrageous. The grandheritage homes in the Seymour Road, Alison Road are are amazing and now council is saying the preferred character is side by side townhouses – How can this group of morons get it so wrong?
August 16, 2017 at 11:47 AM
Not too concerned about heritage. Site between Gordon and Ripon has a heritage overlay. Can now be eight storeys high.
August 16, 2017 at 2:37 PM
It would great to see the National Trust property Ripponlea being shadowed by 8 stories neighbouring developments. That would look just great in the film sets, trying to create period piece settings.
Hopeless, hopeless dullards, completely in the pockets of the developers, just as the last lot were. I just have to wonder how many secret meetings this lot has had with their developer mates to come up with this one sided wish list.
August 16, 2017 at 2:40 PM
We note that in the current Records of Assembly there was also reference to ‘major stakeholder’ meetings re Elsternwick. To the best of our knowledge no such meetings have occurred for Bentleigh and Carnegie – and we seriously doubt whether any run of the mill resident would be considered a ‘stakeholder’!!!!!
August 16, 2017 at 6:58 PM
update (or not) on Caulfield Racecourse
Southern
Metropolitan
Region
Question
asked
by:
Ms
Pennicuik
Directed
to:
Minister
for
Energy,
Environment
and
Climate
Change
Asked
on:
21
June
2017
ANSWER:
To introduce the new governance structures for Caulfield Racecourse Reserve, the
Department of Environment,
Land, Water and Planning is working through a range of complicated legal matters
. These include the removal of
the current Crown Grant, which is an outdated method of delegated management
. It is important that due diligence
is f
ollowed to ensure the long-
term solution is sustainable and doesn’
t unduly impact the rights of the various
parties affected by the new governance structures and the proposed legislation.
We are still fully committed to
implementing the new governance arrangements as soon as possible.
August 16, 2017 at 8:51 PM
Well did the Trust Resign?
Because the threat was; if they didn’t voluntarily resign, the Crown Grant would be dissolved, and the Trustees would effectively be the managers of nothing. There is room for speculation here.
August 17, 2017 at 9:13 AM
Dissolving the Crown Grant would leave Glen Eira with no representations within the racecourse. This could be of some concern, unless the new management structure includes someway of involving residents in these matters.