SOUTH-EAST: Govt plans are half-baked – Davis
Southern Metropolitan MLC David Davis (pictured) says the State Governemnt’s plans for high-rise developments in local suburbs is “half-baked”.
“There are a couple of areas in particular in the Southern Metropolitan Region that I want to focus on,” Mr Davis said.
“Ashburton has been told that there will be a high-rise, high-density development up to four storeys, but the maps have not yet been released.
“The government need to come and actually meet with the community properly, host a proper open forum – not their half-baked approach – and come clean on what is going to happen to the 800-metre zone around Ashburton.
“In the case of the Glen Waverley line, which runs in Stonnington to the south of Ashburton, Glen Iris, Holmesglen, Darling and East Malvern stations, and the 800-metre zone that the government announced would be around those, there is a lack of clarity here.
“The government have announced in the Stonnington wedge a series of maps, many of which are very, very high rise and very impactful, but they have not been clear about what will happen on the Boroondara side on the north of Gardiners Creek.
“That is within the 800-metre zone. I think people are entitled to be concerned, because the earlier planning amendments that were put in place certainly allow high-rise, high-density development to occur, potentially with a significant area around that development. “Those maps have not been released for the north of the Gardiners Creek area. What is going to happen there? It is time that the government came clean. The government tried to intimate that it might not allow development in that area. I certainly would see intense high-rise development of up to 20 storeys as entirely inappropriate there. “