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Category Archives: Urban Growth Boundary
Where the rubber hits the road
Urgent transport reforms are needed to tackle traffic issues caused by urban sprawl in Melbourne. Greens Senate candidate and transport analyst, Janet Rice, sounded a strong warning that urban sprawl in Melbourne’s northern suburbs will accelerate pressure for the North-East … Continue reading
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.
Activity centre development in Ivanhoe: Some food for thought
By Ian Hundley The City of Banyule’s recently released draft Ivanhoe Structure Plan covers the Ivanhoe Shopping Centre, surrounding commercial, civic and residential areas as well as the Ivanhoe and Darebin railway station precincts. The draft plan is generating a … Continue reading
The Baillieu government’s planning review and the North East Link
According to The Age (24/6) the Victorian government has appointed planning expert David Vorchheimer to develop a new metropolitan planning strategy. The strategy review, which was foreshadowed during the 2010 election campaign, is expected to direct urban infrastructure spending for … Continue reading
Freeway Madness!
By Vivienne Ortega Our parklands are under threat! Hundreds of kilometres of new freeways and expanded roads would be built across Melbourne over the next 30 years, under plans revealed
Posted in Baillieu Government, Banyule Flats, Car Dependency, Heidelberg School, Investment in Rail, Ne-Link Freeway, Population Growth, Public Transport, Seat of Ivanhoe, Trains, Uncategorized, Urban Growth Boundary, Vic Roads, Warringal Conservation Society
Tagged Airport Rail Link, City of Banyule, Effects of the automobile on societies, Heidelberg, Hurstbridge railway line Melbourne, Matthew Guy, NE-Link-Freeway, North East Link, Public transport, Public transport in Banyule, Urban growth boundary
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Smart Roads and Activity Centres
By Kevin Biaggini VicRoads and its Smart Roads Policy, Activity Centres and all the other Vested Interests. What it means for US.
Chasing NE Link funding a wrong turn
The fact that Transport Minister, Terry Mulder, would not rule out the NE link road project when invited to do so publicly is worrying.
Will the Urban Growth Boundary really shrink?
Not long after joining with the then Labor government to expand Melbourne’s Urban Growth Boundary by 43,600 hectares, the Liberal-National Party coalition has now held forth the prospect that the government might shrink it in future.
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