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  2012 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, apart from December, which is on the second.

Dates for 2012 are as follows:
21 February, 20 March, 17 April, 15 May, 19 June, 17 July, 21 August, 18 September,  16 October, 20 November and 11 December.

News

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

Association Reps Meet Planning Minister Advisors

On Friday November 4, Association Chair, Kevin Chamberlin, and Bill Cook met with influential  members of the Planning Minister, Matthew Guy’s  staff.  They were Daniel Parsons, Ministerial Advisor and Adrian Salmon, Assistant Director, Statutory Approvals, Department of Planning and Community Development. The meeting covered issues that the Association has experienced in recent times about the operation of the planning scheme.  …

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Friday, October 21st, 2011

VEC Review of City of Melbourne Wards and Councillor numbers

The electoral representation review (ERR) of Melbourne City Council will commence on Monday, 24 October.

The review will consider the appropriate number of the councillors for the municipality and whether the City should be divided into wards.

For more information click here: http://www.vec.vic.gov.au/reviews/Melbournerr.html

Please read the attached document which gives you some background about this review, including:…

What will the

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Friday, October 21st, 2011

Update on Proposed Woolworth’s Development

The local resident’s group RAID, Residents about Integrated Development, have organised two major meetings in their campaign to modify the proposed development for site at 101 – 117 Canning Street,  North Melbourne.

The following link gives a brief report on these meetings and outlines the eight major questions the group wished to ask the Woolworth’s representatives at the meeting:  Woolworth’s …

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