Green Wedges Coalition - A vision for Melbourne

State Government plans to be released tomorrow (Wednesday) for a green wedge land grab of nearly 23,000 ha are the most serious threat to green wedges since the Bracks Government introduced the UGB to protect them in 2002. The green wedge land is to be handed to property developers, following a report last December increasing Melbourne’s population target from 4 million to 5 million.

 

The plans will expand the Urban Growth Boundary around new growth areas which include some of the State’s best remaining native grasslands. Ecologists say their biodiversity rivals Kakadu, yet Government is giving developers a green light for the destruction of grasslands, wetlands and grassy woodlands.