Welcome to the NWMA website

The North & West Melbourne Association was founded in 1967 to work towards a better community: ensuring strategic and statutory planning meet local goals, protecting heritage buildings and streetscapes, improving parks, gardens, open spaces and the environment, improving community facilities, taking up social issues and protecting the local area from through commuter and truck traffic.

Members of the Association work on these issues at local and government levels.

The Association holds it’s general meetings on a monthly basis. All are welcome.

Our meetings for the first half of 2010 will be held on the third Tuesday of the month at 7.30pm in the Meeting Room, first floor, North Melbourne Library, 66 Errol Street.

Dates are as follows:
16th February, 16th March, 20th April, 18th May and 15th June 2010.

News

February 5, 2010

La Trobe Close submission to Minister Richard Wynn

The NWMA’s submission sent on the 15 January 2010 to the Hon Richard Wynne, Minister for Housing on the proposed redevelopment of La Trobe Close. For readers information

Dear Minister

Re 210-232 Chetwynd Street, 21-43 Courtney Street and 181-197 Howard Street, North Melbourne.
We wish to make the following submission to the Minister for Housing, Richard Wynne MP, on the Government’s proposal for…

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December 9, 2009

Council support mandatory height limit and open space for La Trobe Close

The City of Melbourne Planning Committee met on 1st Dec 2009,  the LaTrobe Close Re Development was one of the items on the agenda.

The NWMA supports the provision of social housing in North and West Melbourne, though we insist that government adopts its own policy of social housing integrated with private housing, that quality be maintained, that there be adequate provision…

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December 4, 2009

Latest Resident Meeting on Latrobe Close on December 3

On Thursday 3 December 2009, the NWMA in conjunction with the Latrobe Close Group, convened a public meeting at the Castle Hotel, attended by 24 people.

Latrobe Close is bounded by Chetwynd, Courtney and Howard Streets North Melbourne, where the State Government, with Federal Government funding propose to construct a seven storey block of residential units. This proposal has been opposed…

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