News archive for the ‘Council reform’ topic
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. …
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:…
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Woolworths development proposal – Canning St, Vaughan Terrace, Macaulay Road
A $110 million North Melbourne development proposed by supermarket giant Woolworths.
The plans include two residential towers of 16 and 10 storeys, a supermarket of over 4000 m2 and an attached bottle shop. Also include are 9 specialty shops and a restaurant and 645 car parking spaces, about evenly divided between the residents and the supermarket.
The Association is …
Structure Plan Briefings at June monthly meeting.
The Association has arranged for David Mayes and the Strategic Planning Team from the City of Melbourne to brief members and other interested residents on the contents of the two structure plans that affect our area. These are the City North Structure Plan and the Arden Macaulay Structure Plan. The meeting will be held at the Library at 7.30pm on …
Win on Council Reform
After ten years of effort by both the NWMA and CoRBA to obtain a review of the structure and electoral processes of the City of Melbourne, we have at last achieved some success. The State Government has announced a VEC review of the City of Melbourne, particularly focussing on wards and voter numbers. This is a good first step toward …
Rally At Zagame site.
On Saturday 20th November 2010, a crowd of over 80 attended the protest rally at 577 King Street, West Melbourne. It was great turnout and many attendees held placards to inform both the Zagame staff and the passing traffic of the issues relating to this ten storey high rise development located in a Design and Development Overlay zone that is …
Meet the Candidates.
A very successful event was held in the Supper Room of the North Melbounrne Town Hall on Tuesday night. All seven candidates were in attendance and most questions were responded to by all. The attendance was around 150, which was anticipated by the Association which negotiated the larger space than the upstairs meeting room. We had the usual interjectors but …
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 …
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 heights …
CoRBA Meeting with Lindsay Tanner
Last Tuesday, 8 June 2010, the Coalition of Residents and Business
Associations – Melbourne (CORBA) met with the Federal Member for
Melbourne, Lindsay Tanner at his Melbourne electorate office. The
North and West Melbourne Association (NWMA) was represented by Kevin Chamberlin, Vice Chair and Bill Cook, Treasurer.
CORBA had meet with Lindsay previously on the issue of Melbourne City
Council …