News archive for the ‘Development’ 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. …
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 …
NWMA submission on Structure Plans to City of Melbourne.
The Association has made its submission to the City of Melbourne on the draft City North and Arden Macaulay Structure Plans. This submission was based on the motions passed at the special June monthly meeting of the Association, which was addressed by David Mayes from the Strategic Planning Department of the City of Melbourne Council. The meeting was attended by …
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 …
December Monthly Meeting cancelled
The monthly meeting listed for tonight (14 December) has been cancelled due to the renovations in the library.…
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
News Flash
Meet the Candidiates
All candidates for the Lower House seat of Melbourne have now accepted their invitation and will attend.
Reminder
The North and West Melbourne Association will be conducting a Meet the Candidates Forum for the forthcoming State Election.
Location – Meeting Room at the North Melbourne Town Hall, corner of Queensberry and Errol Streets North Melbourne.…
Protest Rally – Zagame’s at 577 King Street
The group in West Melbourne who are opposing the ten storey development on the Zagame site at 577 King Street, West Melbourne are organising a pre-election protest rally on the site on Saturday 20 November 2010 at 10.30 am. Interested Association members are invited to attend.
Have a look at their website www.nohighrise.com…