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”.
Victorian Government plans to block property development if owners unlawfully demolish heritage buildings
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The Corkman Irish Pub in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton was controversially torn down over a weekend in 2016.
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The Victorian Government will introduce legislation into Parliament today which could stop development on a property for up to a decade if heritage buildings are illegally demolished.
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New legislation has partly been prompted by the controversial Corkman hotel demolition in 2016
The laws would stop future development on a site for 10 years if heritage buildings were illegally demolished
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Melbourne Airport has asked the state government for the right to block housing and other developments in areas affected by flight noise, as it fights to stop a Sydney Airport-style curfew being imposed on planes flying into Tullamarine.
But one planning expert says there are so many developments already approved but not yet built in suburbs affected by flight noise that a curfew is now inevitable within a decade.
Melbourne Airport wants a specified “physical area of airport interest” defined as the boundary for where it can have a say on stopping developments not in its interests.
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Victorian Planning Minister approves controversial lead battery recycling plant in Latrobe Valley
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JanJanuary 2021 at 7:56pm
More than 50 community members protested outside the Hazelwood North Primary School over the approval of a lead battery recycling plant.
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Residents of a Gippsland farming community are angry and some say they are considering moving after the Victorian Planning Minister stepped in to approve a secondary lead smelter before a tribunal had the opportunity to review the project.
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The Victorian Government has intervened to approve a secondary lead smelter in Gippsland
VCAT was due to decide whether the project should go ahead after the local council opposed it