A couple of years ago there was a long fight against a proposed development on the corner of Royston Ave. and Tooronga Rd. East Malvern to replace a modest sized Edwardian house on a medium sized block with large trees ( habitat for birds and possibly some native wildlife and a bit of breathing space along a busy road.)
The fight was obviously lost by the opponents and I attach recent photos of what has been done to the block. Unfortunately I do not have a "before" photo.
As can be seen, there is complete disrespect and disregard for land as an entity in itself. The block has been treated simply as a space to be filled. It will obviously have underground parking for many cars whereas before only one or 2 cars would have been accommodated. One big concern I have with such developments is that as permeability of blocks is dramatically decreased, street trees will have less water and eventually we will lose these as well as the private gardens from which we all benefited.
The proposed changes to the residential zones are of course like many things the State government does- a complete disregard for residents and constituents and a removal of democracy.
Melbourne 2030 is the plan to fit in a million more people by 2030 (from about 2002) Melbourne will have even more than this 1 million increase by 2030. The State Government encourages and pushes for population growth. This is totally detrimental and undemocratic social engineering. Our city will be ruined and our children and grandchildren unfortunately will have far less than we did. This is the last thing we would wish for them but it is happening every day. Each old house for sale whether in my area or not, wears a stamp of vulnerability and I wait to see the debris from the destroyed trees and garden and the empty block looking like a wasteland as it lies in wait for exploitation by a greedy developer as yet more tasteless oversized, overcrowded housing is placed on it. There is an "army" of developers at the ready to descend on these properties, denying the ordinary person a chance to have a bit of space in a modest house in the suburbs and capitalising on the State Government's policies of continual and rapid population growth with planning to match.
Post script
On the Channel 7 Today Tonight program 16 April 2008 the audience was told that by 2030 Melbourne would be "unrecognisable" and that owning a house and garden would a "thing of the past."
Editor's comment:
Channel 7 Today Tonight might have chosen not to make these statements, or it might have chosen to have made them whilst pointing out their unreasonableness and urging Melburnians to fight them. That Channel 7 apparently promoted this outrageous attitude as an unquestionable given puts Channel 7 squarely in the propaganda field. Channel 7 is part of a corporate group with many investments in property development and the lifestyle commodities that go with the package.
It seems obvious to us here at candobetter that no group should be granted a commercial broadcasting license to market dystopia.
Article by Jill QuirkA couple of years ago there was a long fight against a proposed development on the corner of Royston Ave. and Tooronga Rd. East Malvern to replace a modest sized Edwardian house on a medium sized block with large trees ( habitat for birds and possibly some native wildlife and a bit of breathing space along a busy road.)
The fight was obviously lost by the opponents and I attach recent photos of what has been done to the block. Unfortunately I do not have a "before" photo.
As can be seen, there is complete disrespect and disregard for land as an entity in itself. The block has been treated simply as a space to be filled. It will obviously have underground parking for many cars whereas before only one or 2 cars would have been accommodated. One big concern I have with such developments is that as permeability of blocks is dramatically decreased, street trees will have less water and eventually we will lose these as well as the private gardens from which we all benefited.
The proposed changes to the residential zones are of course like many things the State government does- a complete disregard for residents and constituents and a removal of democracy.
Melbourne 2030 is the plan to fit in a million more people by 2030 (from about 2002) Melbourne will have even more than this 1 million increase by 2030. The State Government encourages and pushes for population growth. This is totally detrimental and undemocratic social engineering. Our city will be ruined and our children and grandchildren unfortunately will have far less than we did. This is the last thing we would wish for them but it is happening every day. Each old house for sale whether in my area or not, wears a stamp of vulnerability and I wait to see the debris from the destroyed trees and garden and the empty block looking like a wasteland as it lies in wait for exploitation by a greedy developer as yet more tasteless oversized, overcrowded housing is placed on it. There is an "army" of developers at the ready to descend on these properties, denying the ordinary person a chance to have a bit of space in a modest house in the suburbs and capitalising on the State Government's policies of continual and rapid population growth with planning to match.
Post script
On the Channel 7 Today Tonight program 16 April 2008 the audience was told that by 2030 Melbourne would be "unrecognisable" and that owning a house and garden would a "thing of the past."
Editor's comment:
Channel 7 Today Tonight might have chosen not to make these statements, or it might have chosen to have made them whilst pointing out their unreasonableness and urging Melburnians to fight them. That Channel 7 apparently promoted this outrageous attitude as an unquestionable given puts Channel 7 squarely in the propaganda field. Channel 7 is part of a corporate group with many investments in property development and the lifestyle commodities that go with the package.
It seems obvious to us here at candobetter that no group should be granted a commercial broadcasting license to market dystopia.
Article by Jill Quirk
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Suzy
Fri, 2008-04-18 11:34
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The "moonscaped" block is an all-too-common sight