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 welcomes new members. In 2009 our meetings will be held at 7.30pm at the North Melbourne Library on the third Wednesday of the month, with the exceptions of March and May 2009, where meetings will be held on the fourth Wednesday (25th March at 8.00pm) and second Tuesday (12th May at 7.30pm) respectively.
News
October 16, 2009
North & West Melbourne Association thanks the membership for the responses received. In the light of further information that has recently become available the Committee maintains its level of concern about this proposal. The further information consists of:
- Cost of admission to the event is to be $75-00 per head.
- The target audience is to be 25-30 year age group, plus, and…
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October 14, 2009
Last night (13th October 2009) the Finance and Governance Committee of the Melbourne City Council rejected the proposal for a Horse Polo event on prime recreation land next to the Hockey and Netball Centre. This is a great decision for the users of Royal Park where it was proposed to remove a number of trees. A range of other issues…
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October 8, 2009
We have supported the proposal to extend the railway line from the Flemington racecourse and Showgrounds to the new housing proposal for the old munitions site in Maribyrnong. It could connect to the Victoria University and Highpoint Shopping Centre. Read the report from The Age: Maribyrnong Railway
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