Constituency questions
Southern Metropolitan Region
David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (12:49): I am very concerned about the state government’s steps that it is taking on these large and extensive planning zones. What I would seek from the Minister for Planning is a definitive statement about how heritage will be treated within these zones. To be clear, there are the 10 zones that have been announced, the large zones; the 25 smaller zones that have been announced; and the catchment zones around the large zones in my electorate in Boroondara, Stonnington and Monash and down in the south in Glen Eira, Bayside and Kingston. The state government has not been at all clear about how heritage will be treated. So I ask the minister to make a definitive statement to say that all heritage protections will be honoured in full, that no heritage protections will be watered down and that there will not be a wholesale destruction of heritage in our areas, particularly in Southern Metropolitan. In many cases these are very old buildings that have huge significance to the community, and they should not be destroyed. (Time expired)