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Developers have lodged plans for a 10 storey tower with 474 units and 11 shops on the former Smorgy’s site on the corner of Plenty Rd and Snake Gully Drive Bundoora. [map]

If you think that this is an over development and want to object then make sure each adult in your household fills in an objection form. You can get these from Darebin Council Planning Department by calling 8470 8850.

This application is no joke. It is serious. Darebin’s Planning Committee recently approved an 8 storey tower in a 5 storey zone – so we must make our voices heard or they could approve a 10 storey tower in this 3 storey area.

Please act today. We need 100 written objections to be heard by full council.

Some key planning grounds for objection to are:

• the plan fails to respect the low-rise neighbourhood character of the Bundoora area
• fails to preserve adequate mature tree coverage on site
• will impact on the health of mature gums on and near the site
• fails to provide adequate car parking for 474 units
• will adversly impact on Snake Gully Reserve & Bundoora Park
• will overlook childrens’ playgrounds in Bundoora Park
• will have unacceptable off-site traffic and noise impacts
• ignores current resident 1 zoning of the site
• excessive building bulk & overshadowing on park & housing
• exceeds the 3 storey vision for site in Council’s 2009 study

HELP US SAVE OUR PARK – SAVE BUNDOORA PARK GROUP

hurry!!
The Council deadline is the
28 May 2012.

If you’re concerned about overdevelopment in Bundoora Park call the Darebin Planning department on 8470 8850 and ask for an objection form for application number D/173/2011.

Call your La Trobe Ward Councillors:
Cr Gaetano Greco 0419 750 214
Cr Tim Laurence 0419 750 234
Cr Chiang 0419 764 245 or call the
Mayor Cr Tsitas on 0423 233 024

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PRESTON RESIDENTS TREE SITTING TO STOP ITS DESTRUCTION
Sunday 1st April East Preston Sustainability St meeting.

Love real estate agent Mr Ken Kang has lost at VCAT his plans for a four unit development at 48 Murphy Grove.

He is now preparing to cut down the 20 metre high lemon scented gum that is a notable feature of our skyline and which attracts large flocks of birds to our area (as well as a home for the magpies).

We need your support from 11 am whilst banners and a tree sitting platform are to be installed in the tree (and a tree sitter – any volunteers?). We are hoping that this timing will be suitable to attract TV coverage of the event as well as radio and newspapers.

LETS PUT EAST PRESTON ON THE MAP FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS!

The usual – bring food to share for lunch and we will have the BBQ going; and bring gusty cheers.

And please feel free to invite others that you know are willing to support this cause (and besides save the tree, don’t forget daylight saving – move clocks back one hour)

83 Miranda Road, Reservoir is a prime site for redevelopment. It is going to auction tomorrow, the 17th at 12pm and we have planned an auction action to keep the pressure on Darebin Council, real estate agents and developers.

It would be great if you can support the action. Save Our Suburbs placards will be available or you can bring your own message.

Hope to see you there, Maria.

I am a resident of Beavers Rd and have just noticed a planing application notice placed on what is currently a mechanics business near the corner of Beavers Road and High St, Northcote. [map]

According to the application notice, the site is to be developed into 2 six story blocks containing 95 apartments and an unspecified number of shops/retail.

A significant amount of this frontage will be on Beavers Rd.

While I don’t object to the site being developed, the scale of it would seem to be a little large, particularly the 6 story height in what is a residential street.

Objections need to be in by the 30th of July 2011. I intend to object, as will many of our neighbors, but felt that the DADA might also be interested in looking over this.

We desperately want to do something about the Plenty Road/High St Junction in Preston high rise developments.

I live in Roxburgh St, which has just been heritage overlayed as a garden suburb. The hypocrisy of that is I can’t raise my front fence to make it safer yet our street will now have a background of up to 11 storey buildings (at least 5 I think) and 17 in total in the vicinity.

When I recently spoke to each house in my street about this and wondered why we weren’t involved/invited in the planning process, we were all horrified to know that none of us knew anything about it and everyone will lose any amenity looking to the west side of our street.

We are all disillusioned and wondering what can be done about it.

Can anyone assist me in getting some action here, because I’m sure that we aren’t the only street that has been ‘asleep’.

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