{"id":378,"date":"2007-11-24T02:46:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T16:46:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"victoriagardenspdpapprovedbyvictorianupperhouse-378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/2007\/11\/24\/victoriagardenspdpapprovedbyvictorianupperhouse-378\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Gardens PDP approved by Victorian Upper House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Wednesday, the Legislative Council of Victoria approved C95 for the city of Yarra – turning a large chunk of land on the banks of the Yarra into a prioirty development zone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Hansard<\/a> makes very interesting reading, and we would like to thank Greg Barber (Greens) and Peter Hall (Nationals) for their outstanding support<\/strong> in trying to defeat C95, as well as Peter Kavanagh from the DLP<\/strong> who also voted against it.<\/p>\n

(See our original story regarding this development<\/a>)<\/p>\n

We had strongly urged the Legislative Council to vote NO<\/strong> for this amendment, and had sent the following letter to all Victorian MP’s –
\n
\nVote NO to C95 this Wednesday (21\/11) – Yarra Priority Development Zone<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Legislative Council Member (and Legislative Assembly Members, for you info) <\/p>\n

As you may be aware, C95 from the City of Yarra will be coming before you for a vote quite soon, possibly this Wednesday.<\/p>\n

We strongly urge you to vote AGAINST this planning amendment<\/strong> as it involves establishing a Priority Development Zone on the banks of the Yarra river near the corner of Victoria and Burnley Streets in Richmond.<\/p>\n

The community have been fighting this development from the first day we found out about it, to no avail. The proposal bypassed Yarra Council, completely ignored the local Urban Design Framework (developed with extensive community input) intended to protect the banks of the Yarra, and ignored the State Governments hollow rhetoric about protecting the Yarra river. <\/p>\n

Essentially, it is a massive tower complex that is going to dominate the surrounding area, including heritage precincts. It should be made more sympathetic to the area by increasingly setting the upper levels back from the river reserve and from abutting established singe-storey residential areas.<\/p>\n

C95 will, if you approve it, rezone the area to become a Priority Development Zone. This would mean the development could go ahead without following the normal planning processes – ie, the Planning Minister will become the Responsible Authority, Yarra Council will have no further influence over the project, and residents will no longer have any appeal rights for any development of the land in the PDZ. <\/p>\n

Vote NO!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ian Quick
\nPresident
\nSave Our Suburbs (Vic)<\/p>\n

For a copy of the SOS submission to the Priority Development Panel, see http:\/\/www.sos.asn.au\/files\/SOS_VicGardens_Submission_Final.pdf
\nFor our original article on this development see http:\/\/www.sos.asn.au\/news\/VicGardens.htm<\/p>\n

Note, the following was in our PDP submissions \u2013 <\/p>\n

Priority Development Zones are structurally flawed.<\/p>\n

The Priority Development Zones deny natural justice to residents, in removing the residents’ right to appeal Councils planning decisions, while RETAINING the developers right to appeal.<\/p>\n

This means the developer gets ‘two bites of the cherry’ but residents cannot appeal Council mistakes or interpretations. <\/p>\n

Even though the planning system in Victoria is biased towards developers, and the PDP has the function of facilitating and fast-tracking development, this is probably one of the worst ‘features’ in any part of the planning system today.<\/p>\n

The PDZ should be changed to either allow all appeal rights to be retained by everyone, or to remove them from everyone (so that the developer HAS to do what Council approves)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n

The following MP’s voted to stop C95 –
\nBarber, Mr
\nDrum, Mr
\nHall, Mr
\nHartland, Ms
\nKavanagh, Mr
\nPennicuik, Ms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Wednesday, the Legislative Council of Victoria approved C95 for the city of Yarra – turning a large chunk of land on the banks of the Yarra into a prioirty development zone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Hansard<\/a> makes very interesting reading, and we would like to thank Greg Barber (Greens) and Peter Hall (Nationals) for their outstanding support<\/strong> in trying to defeat C95, as well as Peter Kavanagh from the DLP<\/strong> who also voted against it.<\/p>\n

(See our original story regarding this development<\/a>)<\/p>\n

We had strongly urged the Legislative Council to vote NO<\/strong> for this amendment, and had sent the following letter to all Victorian MP’s –
\n
\nVote NO to C95 this Wednesday (21\/11) – Yarra Priority Development Zone<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Legislative Council Member (and Legislative Assembly Members, for you info) <\/p>\n

As you may be aware, C95 from the City of Yarra will be coming before you for a vote quite soon, possibly this Wednesday.<\/p>\n

We strongly urge you to vote AGAINST this planning amendment<\/strong> as it involves establishing a Priority Development Zone on the banks of the Yarra river near the corner of Victoria and Burnley Streets in Richmond.<\/p>\n

The community have been fighting this development from the first day we found out about it, to no avail. The proposal bypassed Yarra Council, completely ignored the local Urban Design Framework (developed with extensive community input) intended to protect the banks of the Yarra, and ignored the State Governments hollow rhetoric about protecting the Yarra river. <\/p>\n

Essentially, it is a massive tower complex that is going to dominate the surrounding area, including heritage precincts. It should be made more sympathetic to the area by increasingly setting the upper levels back from the river reserve and from abutting established singe-storey residential areas.<\/p>\n

C95 will, if you approve it, rezone the area to become a Priority Development Zone. This would mean the development could go ahead without following the normal planning processes – ie, the Planning Minister will become the Responsible Authority, Yarra Council will have no further influence over the project, and residents will no longer have any appeal rights for any development of the land in the PDZ. <\/p>\n

Vote NO!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ian Quick
\nPresident
\nSave Our Suburbs (Vic)<\/p>\n

For a copy of the SOS submission to the Priority Development Panel, see http:\/\/www.sos.asn.au\/files\/SOS_VicGardens_Submission_Final.pdf
\nFor our original article on this development see http:\/\/www.sos.asn.au\/news\/VicGardens.htm<\/p>\n

Note, the following was in our PDP submissions \u2013 <\/p>\n

Priority Development Zones are structurally flawed.<\/p>\n

The Priority Development Zones deny natural justice to residents, in removing the residents’ right to appeal Councils planning decisions, while RETAINING the developers right to appeal.<\/p>\n

This means the developer gets ‘two bites of the cherry’ but residents cannot appeal Council mistakes or interpretations. <\/p>\n

Even though the planning system in Victoria is biased towards developers, and the PDP has the function of facilitating and fast-tracking development, this is probably one of the worst ‘features’ in any part of the planning system today.<\/p>\n

The PDZ should be changed to either allow all appeal rights to be retained by everyone, or to remove them from everyone (so that the developer HAS to do what Council approves)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n

The following MP’s voted to stop C95 –
\nBarber, Mr
\nDrum, Mr
\nHall, Mr
\nHartland, Ms
\nKavanagh, Mr
\nPennicuik, Ms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statepolitics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}