Emails have gone out to various resident groups urging folks to attend the upcoming council meeting on the 2nd November at 7.30pm at the Town Hall. This is the meeting where the contentious Housing Strategy will be voted upon, and perhaps even the Elsternwick Structure Plan.

If this Housing Strategy is voted through then the ramifications for residential amenity, density, traffic congestion, open space, and tree protection, will be major.

Here is one of these emails which we have received. Please read and tell your friends to attend.

Dear residents,

Below is a summary of the Glen Eira draft Housing Strategy and meeting.  This will affect all residents if it is passed in its current form. We would like as many people to attend this meeting if you are concerned with the possibility of 4 storeys of apartments etc being built next to your home!  

Given that the current Council declared a Climate Emergency it doesn’t seem to make sense to decrease the amount of green space required per block of land and increasing the built form on it.  The more apartments / homes on a block the more paving and less greenery there is. Hypocrisy at its finest

If you could come to this meeting to just demonstrate that this is not an acceptable proposal, especially given we have the lowest amount of green open space of any municipality and Elsternwick has the lowest of anywhere.

Most residents are unaware of the proposed changes. 

The future of Glen Eira is at stake if council adopts the draft Housing Strategy on November 2nd. You will be affected because council is proposing to:

  • Rezone scores of residential streets from two to three and four storeys
  • To remove the mandatory garden requirement in over 7,600 properties and onsite car parking
  • To increase site coverage, reduce permeability, and remove rear setbacks in over 3,000 properties

Yet we are told that Glen Eira has capacity for another 50,000 dwellings. All we need out to 2036 is capacity for 13,000 new dwellings. 

This council is hell bent on more and more development at any cost, regardless of the impact on residential amenity, traffic congestion, climate change, density. Your voice needs to be heard.

We urge residents to attend this council meeting at 7.30pm on November 2nd.

If you have any friends who could come as well this would demonstrate to Council that they need to listen to the voice and concerns of residents.  Something they seem to forget.