160 community & environment groups across Melbourne have formed a coalition to protect Melbournes green wedges. We regard maintaining the green wedges for future generations as a yardstick for our generation’s commitment to developing a sustainable city in a sustainable world.

Make Matthew back down on green wedges too

Representatives of concerned groups from Melbourne’s 12 green wedges will gather on the steps of Parliament to support Shadow Planning Minister Brian Tee when he presents our signed petitions to save the green wedges to parliament on October 12. We will:

GATHER AT 1PM ON WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER ON THE FRONT STEPS OF STATE PARLIAMENT

(Corner Bourke and Spring St, Melbourne.)

Speakers will discuss how best to save the green wedges from the triple threat from the State Government’s

STOP the MASSIVE VENTNOR EXPANSION

The Planning Minister has ignored opposition from the local council and said he will expand Ventnor’s town boundary tomorrow to add hundreds of homes on environmentally sensitive land!

Our community needs to send a message to the Victorian Government,

STAND UP to the Developers and SAY NO to overdevelopment in Ventnor!

To find out more meet at corner of Lymington Ave and Bowcombe Cr, Ventnor

11am, Thursday, 22 September 2011

Developer free-for-all

I was shocked to see the  article  "Green Wedges face the chop"  and interview with Matthew Guy. (Sunday Herald Sun, 23/1)

It looks as though the "new" developments he is talking about are all inside the new expanded Urban Growth Boundary put through by Brumby and Madden with Coalition support, but I am concerned that Matthew seems to think they need more green wedge land land to be rezoned for urban development to bring house prices down.

Green wedges face the chop

THE Baillieu Government finds itself stuck between a green wedge and a hard place.

On one hand the new government needs to find more vacant land to fulfil its election pledge to tackle housing affordability. On the other it has to ensure Melbourne's urban expansion does not destroy the character, environment and liveability of our city. Premier Ted Baillieu (right) will win praise for his latest plan to free up more land in the hope of driving down prices in urban growth areas.

Boom town: new land for homes

VICTORIANS hoping to buy their first home will be thrown a lifeline with the Baillieu Government to announce a plan to slash Melbourne land prices.   Two new suburbs to be announced - Greenvale North and Greenvale West - will house about 7000 people in 1570 houses on 363ha about 20km from the CBD.

Green wedge coalition survey of State Election candidates

The Greens, Labor and Coalition candidates for the State Election all endorsed policies to protect Melbourne’s Green Wedges, but in terms of their survey responses and their record over the past Parliamentary term, the Greens are well ahead on Green Wedge protection. (The responses are attached below)
 
This year, ALP Government and Coalition Opposition MPs voted to extend the Urban Growth Boundary to remove 43,600 ha from the green wedges: forcing farmers and land-holders to sell to developers or be surrounded by suburban sprawl and hi

Please vote to protect Green Wedges

The Green Wedges Coalition is asking voters to please find out where candidates stand on protecting the green wedges that make Melbourne one of the world’s most livable cities and that protect our farmland, recreation and environmental conservation areas from urban development and vote accordingly. To assist, the Coalition is surveying candidates in green wedge and marginal electorates.

Her green vision should be hailed

Mary Delahunty should be remembered not for her occasional frustration with anti-development groups (''Delahunty memoir reveals developer sway on planning'', 22/8) but for her historic vision and the green wedges protection policy she developed with the backing of then premier Steve Bracks in 2002.

PARLIAMENT VOTES TO BULLDOZE GREEN WEDGES FOR SUBURBAN SPRAWL

Today was crunch time, not just for Melbourne's green wedges and the environmental and community groups that have been fighting to protect them from the Brumby Government's plans to replace 43,600 ha of Melbourne's green wedges with suburban sprawl. Today the State Government and Opposition joined forces to ratify Planning Scheme Amendment VC68.

It was also crunch time for Planning Minister Madden and the Brumby Government that has so blatantly betrayed the Green Wedge Protection policy on which the predecessor Bracks government was elected in 2002 and 2006.

KEY VOTE NEXT WEEK IN PARLIAMENT ON GOVERNMENT PLAN TO BULLDOZE GREEN WEDGES FOR SUBURBAN SPRAWL

- please add your voices to green wedge, public lands and urban planning backlash groups to oppose this environmental catastrophe & please forward to your lists of interested citizenss

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