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:
20 July, 17 August, 21 September, 19 October, 16 November, 14 Decemeber, 2010.

News

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Meet the Candidates at August Meeting

The members attending the July monthly meeeting decided to continue the tradition of holding  a ‘Meet the Candidates’ for the coming Federal election. This will be held at our next monthly meeting on August 17 at 7.30pm. The event will be in the meeting room of the North Melbourne Library.
We are inviting all candidates for election to the House of Representatives Seat of

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Friday, July 30th, 2010

State breaks promise on urban sprawl-PPL

Protectors of Public Lands Victoria Inc.

 

MEDIA RELEASE 29 JULY 2010

 

PLANNING CATASTOPHE FOR MELBOURNE AS VC 68 PASSES PARLIAMENT

This morning Planning Minister Madden’s revised Planning Amendment, now re-badged VC 68, was fast tracked through Parliament with the support of the coalition  – Liberals and Nationals – who had,  over the past year,  held out against…

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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

TPM-2010-15 Zagame – Corner Roden and King through to Stanley Street.

West Melbourne has been jolted into the reality of planning politics in the twenty-first century with official support for the ten storey development on the Zagame site in King Street by both the State Government and the Melbourne City Council.  If approved, this project establishes a precedent for wholesale high rise redevelopment of West Melbourne and North Melbourne, at…

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