Eastern Victoria Region
Renee HEATH (Eastern Victoria) (14:09): (896) My question is to the Premier. A retrospective planning overlay has been imposed on hundreds of existing homes in Wonthaggi North, and this is causing untold stress to residents – from the young family who cannot build their deck for their kids to play on to the home owners who have been told that the value of their house has dropped from $800,000 to $650,000 in the last month. There is also another young couple I spoke to who have bought a block of land and have been told that at this stage they are not allowed to build on it. So far residents that are looking for answers and a bit of reassurance who have tried to contact the Minister for Planning have only received a generic email in response, with no answers and no timelines. That is why now I am asking the Premier. My question is: the opposition has committed to ripping up the Labor government’s unfair retrospective decision; will the Premier do the right thing by the people of Wonthaggi North and do the same?