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The state government faces renewed calls to release a secret list of buildings with dangerous flammable cladding after publicly identifying dozens of affected properties across Melbourne with hoarding bearing the Cladding Safety Victoria logo.
The risk of arson and terrorism has been cited by the government as its reason for withholding a list of hundreds of buildings with flammable cladding.
A building on Weston Street, Brunswick East. The Cladding Safety Victoria logo has been used at sites where affected properties are being rectified.
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But protective hoarding on scaffolding at most of the project sites receiving publicly funded repairs has featured the large Cladding Safety Victoria logo, prompting the state opposition to dismiss the arson risk as âspinâ and engineers to call for greater transparency.
Shire, Opposition unite against AGL
3 Mins Read OPPOSITION MPs Neale Burgess and Ryan Smith announce their party’s decision to opposepower conmpany AGL’splans for a gas import terminal at Crib Point.
The two MPs stood on the steps of the Western Port Oberon Association’s headquarters to address the hastily-assembled crowd.
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OPPOSITION MPs Neale Burgess and Ryan Smith announce their party’s decision to oppose power company AGL’s plans for a gas import terminal at Crib Point. The two MPs stood on the steps of the Western Port Oberon Association’s headquarters to address the hastily-assembled crowd.
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Melton council has launched legal action in the Supreme Court against the state government’s approval of toxic West Gate Tunnel soil being dumped in Ravenhall, the latest twist in the long-running saga.
State Planning Minister Richard Wynne late last year delivered approval for Cleanaway to receive and store contaminated soil from the $6.8 billion project at its Ravenhall tip and for Maddingley Brown Coal to take the soil in Bacchus Marsh.
But Melton council’s chief executive last week instructed lawyers to challenge the planning minister’s green light for the soil to be processed in the area.
Young and Jackson founderâs grand home the latest to get âfacadeâ treatment
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Developers have lodged plans for the partial demolition of landmark East Melbourne mansion Eblana, built for Young and Jackson publican Thomas Jackson in 1883, to make way for an apartment tower.
At almost 42 metres, the tower would soar from behind the facade and front two rooms of the grand Italianate-style building at 140-142 Jolimont Road. The new building, home to four luxury apartments, would be almost three times the 15-metre recommended height limit for the precinct.
Push for more time on green wedge plan
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MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire is making a submission to the Melbourne Green Wedges and Agricultural Land Consultation (MGWAL) paper despite wanting the public exhibition time extended to at least the end of the month.
The shire is concerned it will not have enough time to “consult with the community” over the plan which had a deadline for public comment of 5 February. It will also arrange a poll to “ask if the public agrees with the council’s response”.
The state government’s Planning for Melbourne’s Green Wedges and Agricultural Land website says, “robust planning controls are needed to maintain the benefits provided by green wedges and manage land use to support long term agricultural use that serves the needs of Melbourne’s growing population”.