We are asking (pleading) for everyone’s help to convince the State government to give Macedon Ranges the protection it promised in 2010: State policy in the form of a Localised Planning Statement [LPS] that retains Statement of Planning Policy No. 8 [SPP8].
Macedon Ranges Council has hijacked the ‘protection’ process by producing its very own LPS that isn’t SPP8 but a blueprint for growth and development that damages what everyone values about Macedon Ranges. It won’t keep Macedon Ranges rural; it won’t stop suburbia; and it’s definitely NOT protection. It’s less than we have now.
IF YOU WANT MACEDON RANGES TO STAY RURAL AND BEAUTIFUL, please, please send a short message to the Minister for Planning, and politicians and candidates for this area, telling them the Macedon Ranges Localised Planning Statement must be Statement of Planning Policy No. 8 (not Council’s LPS).
Your message could be something as simple as telling politicians you value Macedon Ranges. It’s a place too beautiful to lose, and you want all of it protected by Statement of Planning Policy No 8 as the Macedon Ranges Localised Planning Statement (State policy).
You might send your message to just Matthew Guy, Minister for Planning [email protected], or you might send it to them all:
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The top of the MRRA Home Page links to the “Macedon Ranges Needs You” page which has more information, as well as social media and other contact details for politicians and candidates.
Please use your social media and group networks, and ask family, friends and members of your community groups to send a message (numbers count!). Let’s get this done once and for all. Macedon Ranges has been promised protection for 15 years. We aren’t going to survive without it. With a Council like ours, Macedon Ranges is indeed endangered.
You can also have your say on MRRA’s Twitter (@rangesresidents or https://twitter.com/RangesResidents) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Macedon-Ranges-Residents-Association-Inc/120331464721995) pages. We are aiming for 1,000 likes (Facebook) and 1,000 followers (Twitter) and don’t have anywhere near that at the moment. Can you help us out with a simple click? Knew we could count on you!
Our motto is:
Never ever give up.
But it gets hard sometimes.
Thank you for anything you can do…
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