Tuesday, 15 October 2024

Southern Metropolitan Region

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (13:00): (1137) My constituency question today is for the attention of the Minister for Planning. I am aware, from the City of Boroondara meeting last night, that the Victorian Planning Authority, the VPA, late on Friday insisted on a response from the City of Boroondara – in caretaker mode, I note – on the high-density activity zone that is proposed in the City of Boroondara and that that be provided to the VPA by the close of Wednesday this week. These catchment zones are huge. Nearly 50 per cent of the catchment zone in the Camberwell, Canterbury, Hawthorn and Hawthorn East area of Boroondara that is caught in the catchment zone is in fact heritage listed in one form or another, but the state government is pressing. I ask the minister: will you provide sufficient time for the community and the council to respond?