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Whilst this is undoubtedly a step forward in the long drawn out ‘problem’ of the racecourse, much remains unknown and certainly contentious. Given the Melbourne Racing Club’s history of dealings with council, and overwhelming government support from both sides, answers to the following are essential:
- How much of this $570M will come out of ratepayers’ pockets?
- Will we have high rise and only a sprinkling of social housing along Neerim Road?
- If council is working with the MRC on a business plan, will this be made public?
- How many events will the MRC be permitted to hold each year – 100? 200? etc
- What will be the impact (noise, traffic, etc) on local residents?
- What are the parking arrangements? Will the second lake disappear?
April 14, 2021 at 11:11 AM
Not a mention of protecting the lakes or providing passive recreation, just one giant sport piss-up with the MRC running the show. This brown plan will add million of tonnes of carbon into our drying climate. This plan as shown here is a complete environmental disaster, completely turning our last open space area into more and more sporting areas covered in polluting plastic grass. The community didn’t asked for this mess.
This set of Trustees needs to be sacked by the Minister, for the same reasons as the last Trustees were sacked, they are death to the community opinions and are letting the MRC run the show.
April 14, 2021 at 4:29 PM
Glen Eira rate payers are currently contributing $150,000 to “give them a seat at the table”. I voted against this at the last council meeting on the basis that the current plan is to remove one of the wetland lakes and replace it with an underground car park while covering 50% of the open space with astroturf which is as polluting as concrete pavements. Another environmental catastrophe. All the many environmental concerns raised in the “consultation” process were ignored. Residents need to get active not just angry about the loss of this valuable asset.
April 14, 2021 at 7:36 PM
Pie in the sky stuff. Everything depends on the sale of the other race track and they wont be spending this smount of dough unless they are convinced they can make a huge profit. If there are 200 event days per year on the cards then how much time will sports get.
April 15, 2021 at 9:06 AM
The Caulfield Racecourse Land Management Plan Launch was John Batman 1835 reenacted in a tent.
The Trustees had organised a Aboriginal Dance Group to open the LMP Launch, possibly as a sign of respect or modernity or window-dressing if one was to be cynical.
It was a fest of greedy self-interested empire building privileged whites grabbing the last remnants of country left in Glen Eira and turning over to a privileged few sporting clubs.
The LMP does as much as possible to whitewash away the very thing The First Nation People continually ask for, “Respect for Country” there is very, very little of that R word between the pages of the Racecourse LMP.
The Ministry approved Land Management Plan still persists with eliminating the southern lake for an underground car parking area. The launch was all about delivering sport and more sport regardless of the cost to the environment and climate.
The sporting fundamentalists that stack the new Trust were falling over themselves with their love over what will be likely Melbourne’s largest synthetic turf cover area, possibly even the largest in the world, regardless of the cost both monetarily and environmentally.
There was a protest from the front row. That likely came as a shock to the well insulated sporting Taliban like people that have adopted and elevated sport as their uncompromising religion, and believe everyone else should too.
There is a huge disconnect in sharing our land use fairly in Glen Eira, filling one of last three lakes with concrete in the 40 square K that makes up the City of Glen Eira “no problem”
It seems it was all a big mistake to have a lake there in the first place. 1835 would have seen John Batman saying exactly the same words.