17 April 2016 On Thursday 7 April, with four days’ notice, residents on Flemington Rd received a letter from the CityLink Tulla Widening project, saying that five lemon scented gums, including the 94-year-old National Trust listed beauty at the Flemington Road /...
23 March 2016 Greens on Council have moved to untangle the residential zones mess in the City of Melbourne. The brazen politicisation of the process for applying residential zones in the City of Melbourne by the former Planning Minister Matthew Guy has left the City...
22 May 2015 The City of Melbourne draft Annual Plan and Budget for 2015-16 has been released for public consultation. There are some great outcomes in the draft Annual Plan and Budget which, like the 2013-14 and 2014-15 Annual Plans and Budgets, implement Greens City...
10pm, 20 November 2014 From Cr Rohan Leppert: As I write this, City of Melbourne officers are seeking emergency heritage protection for the interiors of the Palace Theatre. This follows today’s deplorable act by the new owner of the theatre to demolish its...
7 September 2014 A very disappointing Council meeting on Tuesday saw Council – with surprising support from Labor – make two planning decisions which directly contradicted the North Melbourne and Southbank structure plans. Both structure plans were the...
30 August 2014 A report by City of Melbourne officers to Council this coming Tuesday, called for as a result of a successful Greens motion in July this year, confirms that the East West Link planning process has reached new levels of secrecy. The Council requested in...
