Big box shops bad news for PT and local traders

A recent article by Clay Lucas in The Age week featured an announcement by planning minister Matthew Guy to broaden the categories of retailers permitted to trade in “big box” shopping centres. This is bad news for Banyule and the cause of sustainable urban development.

Banyule’s Public Transport Paradox

I have been using our local public transport services for the two past months for my daily to journey to work and nothing makes sense to me anymore.

Planning Minister Guy and the NE Link Project

By Ian Hundley

Planning Minister and Northern Metropolitan Province MP, Matthew Guy, has recently written to Friends of Banyule

Baillieu freeway bid signals lurch towards roads and a strike against public transport

We can choose our future

Writing recently in The Age senior columnist Kenneth Davidson attacked the Baillieu government’s decision to seek funding from the Commonwealth government’s capital  funding body, Infrastructure Australia, for an eighteen kilometre expanded freeway link between

Banyule Bus Services – how do the changes affect you?

For the purpose of improving on-time running the Victorian government recently announced permanent changes to route bus services that are regularly accessed by residents of the City of Banyule.

Doncaster Rail Project needs community involvement

The Perth freeway rail could be a model for the Doncaster rail project

By Ian Hundley

If built Doncaster Rail could provide a sustainable solution for Banyules’ traffic congestion and lack of public transport.

The issues around the Ivanhoe Structure Plan

By Dennis O’Connell

Local Structure Plans originally emerged under Melbourne 2030 and related Planning Scheme amendments including VC71 (providing for development along transport corridors and activity centres), as part of planning policy under the previous government.