160 community & environment groups across Melbourne have formed a coalition to protect Melbourne's 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.

GWC AGM 2025 - What the planning chaos means for the Green Wedges

Dear supporters of Green Wedges, inclusive planning and a fair and liveable Victoria, attached is the Green Wedges Coalition AGM notice for Thursday 11 December at 7.30pm.

Our guest speaker Professor Michael Buxton will discuss:  

What the planning chaos means for Green Wedges: the (so-called) Action Plan; the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Food Supply; the State Government response; and now the Better Decisions Made Faster bill.  (Or will it be Worse Decisions Made Faster?)

The AGM is by zoom on Thursday 11/12, the link will be sent separately with the reports for the AGM and we hope to see you there. RSVP by Thursday 4 December 2025 to David Redfearn (cc Rosemary west)
The Pearcedale bushland and wetland koala habitat saved thanks to the Peninsula Green Wedge Protection Group’s successful VCAT appeal which upheld Council’s refusal of a place of worship application. Credit: Joe Armao (The Age)
27/11/2025
Subject: 
GWC

Victoria's New Plan - Implications for the Green Wedges

Author: 
Micheal Buxton

Play to hear Emeritus Professor Michael Buxton speak on the Implications for the Green Wedges of the Government’s new Plan for Victoria.

MichaelBuxton-GuestSpeaker-GWC-AGM-15Nov2024.mp3

 

15/11/2024
Subject: 
Landuse Planning

2024 AGM - Victoria's New Plan - Implications for the Green Wedges

The Annual General Meeting of Green Wedge Coalition Incorporated will be held online at 7.30 pm on Friday 15 November 2024.

The agenda is attached and a Zoom link will be sent with RSVPs.

David Redfearn OAM Secretary

AGM - Will the Green Wedges Action Plan protect the Green Wedges

"Will the Green Wedges Action Plan protect the Green Wedges?" Guest Speaker Emeritus Professor Michael Buxton, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT.

Green Wedges Coalition Inc. AGM 7:30pm on Thursday 28th March, 2024

RSVP by Tues 26 March 2024 to David Redfearn: dredfearn@vtown.com.au and a Zoom link will be emailed to you
(cc Rosemary West: rowest@ozemail.com.au)

Minister launches Green Wedge Action Plan, but will it protect the Green Wedges?

The Green Wedges Coalition welcomed the Labor Government’s 2018 election pledge to tighten controls to better protect Melbourne’s Green Wedges and peri-urban farmland. It was a popular pledge: every community consultation since the 2002 Melbourne 2030 strategy has found overwhelming support for protecting the Green Wedges for their environment and biodiversity, agriculture, open space and scenic rural landscapes.

We are pleased we now have a Minister in Sonya Kilkenny who wants to fulfil her predecessor’s promise to ‘protect Melbourne’s Green Wedges from urban and inappropriate uses’ and to  ‘permanently tighten controls to better protect Melbourne’s green wedges against over development.’    We welcome the controls the Action Plan plans to tighten and the extension of Green-Wedge-style protections for agricultural land in the peri-urban areas within 100k of the CBD.

But there seem to be no actions in this plan to effectively achieve these reforms.  We are concerned that the Action Plan fails to address the perennial problem of urban uses encroaching into the Green Wedges. 

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