Planning for disaster!

"Melbourne already has 30 years of land supply but Ted Baillieu and Matthew Guy want more….radical deregulation will change Melbourne irrevocably for the worse".  (click to read article)

This revealing opinion piece by Prof. Michael Buxton was printed in The Age last Sunday July 15. 

Dr Michael Buxton is Associate Professor of Environment and Planning with the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning at RMIT University. He has held senior positions in four Victorian planning and environmental agencies and has contributed extensively to national and state environmental and planning policy.  He was also a critical member of the former government's Melbourne 2030 Implementation Review Group,

Prof. Buxton led the intergovernmental process developing a new National Greenhouse Strategy between 1994 and 1996 and was Chairperson of the Premier's Green Wedge Working Party which advised the government on the adoption of a legislated urban growth boundary.  His research areas include urban intensification, peri-urban development and the sustainability of outer urban development.

He was an elected Victorian local government councillor and Mayor for ten years and was a member of the Upper Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges Authority for six years. He is a former lecturer at Monash University, Melbourne.