2: SAY NO TO SUBURBIA DIRECTORY
(Last Updated 23/9/11)
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CURRENT (Post-2010 State Election: Baillieu Liberal/National Government) | ||||
| MRRA Meets With Minister For Planning, Matthew Guy, June 22 | Current | |||
State Government Sets Up Peri Urban Planning Unit Within Department | Current | |||
Liberal / National Coalition Will Protect Macedon Ranges - MRRA Press Release | ||||
Say No To Suburbia Noticeboard (Latest items) | ||||
ON-GOING | ||||
Macedon Ranges' draft Settlement Strategy: | Current | Archive | ||
Labor's Regional Strategic Plan | ||||
State Govt's Regional Strategic Plan Puts Growth Agenda In Place For Macedon Ranges: Council Endorses Plan Without Community Consultation | Current | Archive | ||
'Committee For Melbourne' Thinks Macedon Ranges Is The Place For A Suburb | Current | Archive | ||
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Candidates' Responses | Archive | |||
PREVIOUS (Pre-2010 State Election: Bracks/Brumby Labor Government) | ||||
Keep Macedon Ranges Rural Petition | ||||
Minister for Planning And Mayor Noel Harvey: Tag-Team To Shut Down SPP8? | ||||
Help Us Victoria - Home Page (2005) | ||||
MRRA Pre 2004 Public Meeting Press Release | ||||
MRRA Post 2004 Public Meeting Press Release | ||||
Our Towns, Our Environment, Our Say | ||||
Features | ||||
2006 State Election: Who supported protection... (2006) | ||||
Spectacular response to MRRA's question to candidates: Where do you stand on State level planning protection for Macedon Ranges? | ||||
State Planning Protection In Macedon Ranges (2006) | ||||
What Is It, and Why Is It Needed? | ||||
MRRA's 2006 presentation to politicians | ||||
From the Vision Splendid to The Vision Sullied (2005) | ||||
The Urban Conversion: 2004 ‘Victoria In Future’ Growth Projections | ||||
What they mean for Macedon Ranges (2005) | ||||
The Need for State Level Planning Protection | ||||
How Do We Stop Overdevelopment? | Headlines | Archive | ||
Close to 2,000 existing rural lots left off new Macedon Ranges' planning scheme maps | ||||
Macedon Ranges doomed? C48 isn't enough - we need State level protection | ||||
Macedon Ranges' planning scheme goes "clunk" as Council drops all the balls on C48 | ||||
Independent MP criticizes Minister for Planning over C48 | ||||
Pop the corks! Recent VCAT decision says Macedon Ranges isn't like Melbourne (2006) | ||||
The ink's not dry on C48 and already Amendment C55 is trying to wind it back | ||||
Large use and development proposals fall before C48 and new rural zones | ||||
Fame and shame as Amendment C48 gives - and takes away! | ||||
State Government finally acknowledges Macedon Ranges is NOT protected by State Planning Policy Framework? (2005) | ||||
see also Planning Directory | ||||
Growth Rates: Too Much Growth in State Significant Area | Headlines | Archive | ||
Latest DPCD Growth Figures Say Macedon Ranges' Growth Has Slowed Yet Again In 2007 | ||||
2006 First Release ABS Census Data For Macedon Ranges - MRRA Overview | ||||
Latest Census Data A Shock For Macedon Ranges | ||||
Latest DSE Growth Estimates | ||||
Courtesy of the Bracks Government, Macedon Ranges is becoming so suburban even real estate agents are complaining! (2006) | ||||
Gisborne already a suburb of Melbourne (2006) | ||||
It's official: VCAT says Romsey gets metro area's development spillover - make that Macedon Ranges too (2006) | Archive | |||
New Govt. survey on 'Empty Nester' housing preferences: most don't want a sea / tree change! (2006) | Archive | |||
Latest Council growth projections show what will happen if we 'do nothing' (2006) | ||||
see also Council Draft Housing Strategy 2007 | ||||
Macedon Ranges’ growth rate soars (2005) | ||||
DSE's 2005 Population Bulletin | ||||
see also Urban Conversion | ||||
Interim Protection: State Govt. "Can Do", Except In Macedon Ranges | Headlines | Archive | ||
Coastal Areas | ||||
Planning Minister Hulls talks tough about protecting coastal areas, but when is the Bracks Government going to deliver it's 8 year old promise to protect Macedon Ranges? | ||||
See how the Government's Coastal Strategy didn't protect Port Campbell | ||||
Daylesford (Neighbourhood Character) | Archive | |||
Minister's Press Release | ||||
Minister's Press Releases - various | ||||
Mornington gets 'sort of' interim height protection from Minister for Planning | ||||
Minister's Press Release | ||||
Yarra River | ||||
Minister's Press Release | ||||
Ministerial Interventions (2005) | ||||
MRRA's Campaign To Restore State Level Planning Protection | ||||
Planning For a Sustainable Future Project | Headlines | Archive | ||
The $70,000 State govt. / Council strategic planning project that came out of MRRA's April 2004 meeting with Planning Minister Delahunty | ||||
Project starts May 2005 | ||||
Bracks Govt's Refusal to Protect Macedon Ranges (2006) | ||||
MRRA Meeting With Planning Minister (2005) | Headlines | Archive | ||
First MRRA letter to Minister Hulls requesting meeting (2005) | ||||
Second MRRA letter to Hulls requesting meeting (2005) | ||||
Sounds of Silence from Spring Street | ||||
Dianne Hadden letter to Minister supporting a meeting | ||||
Letter from Geoff Howard MLA | ||||
MRRA response to Geoff Howard | ||||
Letter from Kevin Love, DSE, (2/2/05) on behalf of Minister Delahunty: Protecting Macedon Ranges is not a matter of State or Regional significance, interim protection will not be provided, Council is to do the work. | ||||
Resolutions (combined) MRRA Public Meetings 2004 | ||||
"Equal Significance" Chart (comparison) | ||||
1999 Planning Panel recommendations - not done | ||||
Have we waited long enough for Minister Hulls?, & responses | ||||
MRRA to meet with Minister Hulls' advisors | ||||
MRRA to meet with Minister Hulls | ||||
Minister Hulls' press release: No Macedon Metropolis (2005) |
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MRRA response to Minister Hulls (2005) "No Money, No Help - Macedon Ranges You're On Your Own" | ||||
Planning Backlash Meetings With Minister Justin Madden, 2007 | ||||
MRRA call for help to Victorian Councils (2005) | Headlines | Archive | ||
Minister for Planning's Letters to the Editor (2005) | Headlines | Archive | ||
Planning Minister Hulls criticizes MRRA (2005) | ||||
Minister Hulls' letter to the editor | ||||
Minister Hulls' Daylesford media release | ||||
MRRA press release/response | ||||
Christine Roussiyan criticism of MRRA (2005) | ||||
Planning Minister Hulls criticizes senior citizen (2005) | ||||
Govt says Macedon Ranges already protected | Headlines | Archive | ||
Planning Minister says govt. protects Macedon foothills from suburbia (2006) | ||||
A sad, sad day for Macedon Ranges: Minister For Planning's media release says his government protects the beauty of Mt. Macedon and stops suburbia stretching into the foothills of Mt. Macedon - that's just not true | ||||
Parliament: Dianne Hadden Calls for Protection | ||||
Bracks Broken Promises | Archive | |||
MRRA request for meeting with State Govt. & Govt. Response (2006) | Headlines | |||
MRRA asks for meeting with Premier Bracks and Ministers Hulls and Thwaites | Link | |||
Minister Hulls responds with someone else's letter | ||||
Mansfield (DSE) letter to MRRA | ||||
Minister Hulls' letter to Dianne Hadden | ||||
MRRA response to Bracks Govt's "no protection" advice | Headlines | Link | ||
Nothing will save Macedon Ranges from becoming a suburb now | ||||
Joanne Duncan's Final Response Means Only One Thing: A Vote For LABOR Is A Vote For SUBURBIA | ||||
The opportunity was there to say 'yes', but Joanne Duncan confirms Bracks government still says 'no' to protecting Macedon Ranges | ||||
Labor Says NO Again In Response To Liberal Protection Proposal: | ||||
Lies, Damned Lies and More Lies? | ||||
Pre-election Labor Policy "Planning In Partnership With Local Communities" | ||||
Other Parties' and Candidates' Responses to State Protection (State Election 2006) | Headlines | Archive | ||
Spectacular Response To MRRA's Request For Comments On Protecting Macedon Ranges | ||||
MRRA Asks Candidates: Where Do You Stand On State Level Planning Protection for Macedon Ranges? | ||||
What Other Candidates Said (Hint: three letter word, starts with 'y', ends with 's') | ||||
Country Alliance | ||||
Andrew Robinson, Democratic Labor Party | ||||
Greens | ||||
Dave Barry, Independent | ||||
Stefano de Pieri, Independent | ||||
Dianne Hadden, Independent | ||||
Steve 'Jack' Medcraft, Independent | ||||
Laurie Whelan, Independent | ||||
Liberal | ||||
Rob Guthrie (People Power) | ||||
People Power | ||||
Socialist Alliance Party | ||||
Politicians/Political Parties | Headlines | |||
Dianne Hadden, Independent MLC Ballarat East 2006 | Archive | |||
Greens Party | Archive | |||
Liberal | Archive | |||
Ted Baillieu, Leader Of The Opposition | Archive | |||
Dave Davis, Shadow Minister for Planning | Archive | |||
Fran Bailey, MHR McEwen, Federal Minister for Small Business and Tourism | Archive | |||
Robyne Head, Liberal candidate for Macedon 2006 | Archive | |||
National Party | Archive | |||
State's Hidden Suburban Agenda for Macedon Ranges | Headlines | Archive | ||
Proposed expanded metropolis in Macedon Ranges: NCCMA Map | ||||
Tourism: Macedon Ranges goes from “Goldfields” to “Melbourne Surrounds” | ||||
Urban agenda hidden in the ‘Fast Rail’ project? | ||||
Western Water | Archive | |||
Western Water announces new water and sewerage charges | Current | |||
Where Is Western Water's newly declared Macedon Sewerage District taking us? | Current | |||
Macedon Ranges' Issues | ||||
Name Good Development In Macedon Ranges | Archive | |||
"Significance" Signs on Shire Boundaries | Archive | |||
State Issues | ||||
Statement of Planning Policy No. 8 | Archive | |||
Minister for Planning And Mayor Noel Harvey: Tag-Team To Shut Down SPP8? | Current | |||
DPCD Orders The 'MACEDON RANGES POLICY' Removed From Our Planning Scheme | Current | |||
Melbourne 2030 | Archive | |||
Melbourne 2030 Audit | ||||
VCAT Boss Stuart Morris says 2030 doesn't apply in Macedon Ranges | ||||
Melbourne 2030 Portal: How bad is Melbourne 2030? | ||||
Collingwood Action Group - Banco Proposal | ||||
Parliamentary Inquiry: Building New Communities | ||||
MRRA Presentation to Committee | ||||
Terms Of Reference | ||||
MRRA's Presentation | ||||
MRRA's Purposes | ||||
State Issues / Policies / Statements | ||||
State Government Backs Down On Taking Residents' Rights Away In New State Residential Zones | ||||
Pre-election Labor Policy "Planning In Partnership With Local Communities" | ||||
Minister Hulls: "Favours" claim at Phillip Island, Linfox land (2006) | ||||
Minister Hulls: Days of hillbilly councillors are over (2005) | ||||
State Rural Zones | ||||
Urban Growth Boundary | ||||
VCAT | ||||
Save Our Suburbs (Vic): "VCAT Exposed" and "Implementation and Performance of Melbourne 2030" features on SOS website (2006) | ||||
Pop the corks! Recent VCAT decision says Macedon Ranges isn't like Melbourne (2006) | ||||
VCAT Boss says suburban Melbourne 2030 doesn't apply in Macedon Ranges (2006) | ||||
VLGA: Fix Planning In Victoria | ||||
Victorian Local Governance Association supports overhaul of planning in Victoria | ||||