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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

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.

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.
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