In what can only be described as the most retrograde and negative step this council has taken since the introduction of the notorious residential zones in 2013, we now have a further erosion of residential amenity. All thanks to the proposed C184 amendment. The main documents can be accessed via this link! https://www.gleneira.vic.gov.au/services/planning-and-building/planning-scheme-and-amendments/current-planning-scheme-amendments/c184glen
Whilst we still need to go through all the documents with a fine tooth comb, here are the main things we’ve noticed at this stage. Please note:
- Properties zoned NRZ 2 (Neighbourhood Residential zone) will revert back to what was there in 2004. What this means is that instead of a requirement for a 50% site coverage this will now become the ResCode vision of 60%. Permeability will also go from 25% to 20%.
- Here is the zoning map for Bentleigh. Please note the number of GRZ5 and NRZ2 dwellings to be rezoned. Also GRZ5, will no longer have to have the mandatory ‘garden requirement’ as recently introduced by Wynne. In other words, more room for development with less open space.
- Carnegie will now have a RGZ4 where site coverage is 90% and permeability is 5%
- Please also note that some of the above ‘thinking’ was never, ever made public. How typical of this council!!!!!!
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Glen Eira Debates 
July 23, 2020 at 4:07 PM
For well over a decade council has continued to pat itself on the back in relation to their 2004 amendments and the gains made for minimal change. With this bit of news it’s gone. How any councillor could agree to these changes is literally beyond belief. As per always, any change to have more and more development is gratefully accepted by this council.
July 23, 2020 at 8:58 PM
Half of what’s in the maps show grz5. That’s stacks of land for more development when you take away the garden areas. I’ve checked out the website and not a word about this by council. Up to their old tricks of making it as hard as possible for people by making them read tons and tons. A summary with detail would do the job but that would have really set the cat among the pigeons. Best to keep mum and hope that not too many people bother to read the fine print.
To this blog site. A big thanks for doing the hard yakka and informing us.
July 23, 2020 at 10:00 PM
Shame about downstream flooding issues in Port Phillip
July 24, 2020 at 1:13 PM
Council had its C184 rejected, so what is now emerging is presumably what Wynne has demanded. If the previous C184 implemented Council’s structure plans then this one doesn’t.
The structure plans themselves have been tinkered with, have abandoned any pretence of having a relationship with community feedback. Remember the rationale for further weakening amenity standards–so that developers could achieve a higher yield ie maximize profit? That was sufficient justification for Council go acquiesce to council officer recommendations.
Much of the “rationale” is hogwash. None of it strictly necessary from a planning perspective. As IBAC discovered, influence is purchased through large donations from the development industry to the government. The government could implement its original plan of GRZ almost everywhere–if it wasn’t that it would lose votes.
Even NRZ has gradually morphed into facilitating substantially more development, undermining the justification for 4-storey covid-factories. [Council, as if we need reminding they’re disingenuous, predicted fewer dwellings could fit in NRZ as a result of the weakening of restrictions in that zone.]
Now long range planning is predicting a fall in population. We already know that Victorians are having less children than replacement rate [less than 1.9 actual vs 2.1 replacement]. While we have had a high immigration rate as part of the federal government’s strategy on behalf of corporate donors to keep wages down and to funnel money to the development industry, this remains unsustainable.
July 24, 2020 at 1:23 PM
When you are hoping to get gazillions in loans and grants from government, then you quite easily sell your soul and forget about residents. That’s the description I would apply to our lot.
July 24, 2020 at 8:21 PM
But Council keeps winning awards!
*Keeping Glen Eira Moving : Glen Eira Parking Policy has been selected as a finalist for the Australian Industry of Traffic Planning and Management Excellence Award.
And from a latest memo – Council also believes that “yet again it demonstrated that COVID doesn’t stand in the way of good governance and decision making.”
July 25, 2020 at 9:50 AM
Oh puleeeese. Spin doctors must be earning a fortune at Glen Eira. Could be that those awarding the gold medals have contracts with council? Shame that photoshopped pictures beat facts hands down.
July 25, 2020 at 7:06 PM
Council has supported the State Government “initiative” to encourage on-street parking in half the municipality. Certainly doesn’t make it safer for cyclists. As for winning awards, I remember Council justifying why it didn’t insist on planning applications being accurate [“We’d have no applications to assess then”], hence the inability to tell the difference between a kindergarten and a railway line. They won an award for their sloppiness on that front too.