Southern Metropolitan Region
Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (12:57): My question is to the Minister for Planning. At last night’s Boroondara council meeting the Boroondara heritage group and the Boroondara community group presented to council and highlighted their concerns about the government’s plan or agenda to bulldoze through, as they called it, and to have towers, skyscrapers and multiple buildings throughout the City of Boroondara. That is going to ruin the neighbourhood character, the tree canopy, the livability and the amenity as well as the heritage. The meeting was attended by hundreds of residents, and the government continues to disregard their concerns. This is not isolated to Boroondara; it is Glen Eira, it is Stonnington, it is in parts of Moonee Ponds and Essendon – it is right across Melbourne. Under Labor you get no voice and you get no choice. As one speaker said, even when you make representations to the local Labor MPs all you get is them sticking to the script and dismissing your concerns. So I ask that the Minister for Planning, together with the Premier, meet with the residents of Boroondara to hear their concerns about the government’s plans.