Rosemary West
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
STOP BUILDING BUSHFIRE FODDER
– Green Wedge groups say keep housing development out of the fire-prone areas.
State Government wants to change the native vegetation protection rules to encourage householders to clear more trees from around their houses (Land-clearing laws to change in wake of fires, The Age, 24/2) yet paradoxically also proposes to release another 23,000 hectares of green wedge land for development, much of it in fire-prone pastures and woodlands.
SUBMISSION TO GROWTH AREAS AUTHORITY: URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY REVIEW
Dedicated to Jenni Bundy, Secretary of the Green Wedges Protection Group
Who died in the Nillumbik green wedge bushland she worked so long and lovingly to defend
1. Background
The 1968-71 metropolitan planning process officially established nine Green Wedges as non-urban zones between Melbourne's main urban development corridors. It outlined acceptable non-urban uses, including recreation, flora and fauna conservation, landscape protection, resource utilization and farming. The protection of public land and of public open space - including Crown and public authority land - is integral to the first two of these uses, but not necessarily to the others.
