Mr SOUTHWICK (Caulfield)
My question is to the Minister for Planning. Minister, many residents in Elsternwick have expressed concern over the impact of overdevelopment on their local amenity and liveability. The Elsternwick structure plan projects a 20 per cent increase in population and responds to the expectation in your government’s Plan Melbourne Refresh that will require 22000 residents to be accommodated in Glen Eira in the next 15 years.
The plan, which has been approved by the council, will now go to a planning panel and ultimately you as the minister will be responsible for any changes in the Elsternwick precinct. As the structure plan outlines no measures to cope with this densification and will lead to the loss of established houses in the area, Minister, what is the government doing and what are you doing to prevent local families losing their homes and to protect the liveability of Elsternwick and the surrounds?
Glen Eira Debates 
March 10, 2018 at 11:05 AM
Really, Mr Southwick??
March 11, 2018 at 8:45 AM
Remember that the Minister wrecking our city is Labor whom I suspect you voted for.
March 11, 2018 at 11:20 AM
Both major parties are hell bent of feeding their developer mates everything they ask for. Everyone else is just a pawn in their game, and any public consultation is just a sham.
March 11, 2018 at 7:47 AM
Not much substance here
March 13, 2018 at 3:12 PM
Channel 2 had a good session on whether or not we need a cut back in our immigration levels until infrastructure can catch-up as our community in both Sydney & Melb are busting at the seams. You can have high rise in the community so long as it not Point Piper. General consensus was that neither current or past state govt have done enough in terms of planning for population increase as the “system is now imploding” Even Bob Carr agreed with Tony Abbott that we need to slow immigration until infrastructure can catch-up and we decide what sort of future we ALL want for our community….OMG an ex PM and an ex Premier from both sides of the political landscape agreeing? seems almost impossible but there you have it. It also came out that local councils need more direction from the state as they too have no idea. The debate continues next week due to the hot interest….would not want to be someone treating this debate with contempt like our council appear to be doing?