CURRENT  Community Website - Romsey Magnolia - Raises Concerns About New Bendigo Bank Site (23/10/11 - P)  Romsey residents concerned development application hasn't satisfactorily tackled the big issues  More...

Macedon Ranges Wildlife Network (19/11/08 - E)  New website   More...

Reminder From Planning Backlash (2/4/09 - P)  Are you looking at www.marvellousmelbourne.org?  More...

Latest News From Environment East Gippsland (13/11/11 - CC)  Forest updates and advice on how to lobby politicians  

NEW  Election Of Macedon Ranges Mayor For 2012 (24/12/11 - C)  Will 2012 be better or worse than 2011?  More...

CURRENT Council Meeting Dates For June 2011 to June 2012  More...

CURRENT Action Required  Planning Goes Backward As Council Abandons Planning Committee Meetings (22/5/11- C)  Less accessibility, less light, less accountability is a recipe for returning to the dark days of the past  More...

CURRENT  Council's New Garden Waste Bins Roll Out (7/10/11 - C)  Good idea, but there's some confusion  More...

CURRENT  Kyneton Mechanics Institute: Refurbishment Cost Overruns Approved By Council (7/10/11 - C)  It's not just cost over-runs, but what's being paid for, and how it's approved, that is of concern.  More...

"Hell To Pay - Cities In The Age Of Default And Revolt" by Brendan Gleeson (24/9/06 - E)   Published in 2004, this paper pulls no punches about what could happen if we don't heed the warning signs.  More...

CURRENT  Woodend Landcare Workings Bees  (29/6/10 - CC)  Get aboard!!  More...

CURRENT  MRRA Meets With MR Sustainability Group Re Wind Farm In Macedon Pine Plantation (17/8/11 - E)  A project with some big hurdles to overcome...  More...

ALERT  MRRA Calls For Bipartisan Political Support To Immediately Protect Rural Land and Water Catchments  (6/9/07 - P)  This isn't a political issue.  It's a survival issue.   More...

CURRENT Are We All Rooned?   Someone Asks The $64,000 Question:  Should It Be An Ambulance Or A Fence? (23/8/06 - E) "The water issues continue to amaze me. I would not have thought we could come this close to the edge of the cliff without somebody thinking about the fence that might be built for the future..."  More...

CURRENT Action Required  Macedon Ranges Wildlife Network (19/11/08 - E)  New website   More...

CURRENT   State Government Finalizes New Rules For Wind Energy Facilities  (23/9/11 - E)  Turbines now 'off-limits' in Macedon Ranges  More...

CURRENT  MRRA Meets With MR Sustainability Group Re Wind Farm In Macedon Pine Plantation (17/8/11 - E)  A project with some big hurdles to overcome...  More...

Latest MRRA Newsletter: Go To MRRA Members' Forum

CURRENT  National Recognition For MRRA (19/10/09)  MRRA to be included in Canberra's National Library Of Australia archive - in perpetuity!  More...

MRRA Makes Submission On Council's Economic Development Strategy (21/8/09 - C)  Room for improvement...  More...

MRRA Makes Submission On Braemar Amendment (21/8/09 - P)  It's worse than we thought...  More...

MRRA Submission - President's VCAT Review Consultation Paper  (13/7/09 - P) Please, go back to planning, get the lawyers out of it, and start healing rock-bottom public confidence  More...

MRRA Submission On Environmental Regulations (30/5/09 - SG)  We say, think about tomorrow, not just today More...

MRRA Submission On New State Residential Zones (30/5/09 - P)  Association stands up for rural areas  More...

CURRENT  Are You Going To Finish Strong? (30/5/09 - O)  The try, try and try again principle, beautifully repackaged. More...

NEW  State Govt Introduces Sweeping Changes To Bushfire Planning Provisions In Amendment VC83 (24/12/11 - P)  New Bushfire Management Overlay [BMO] takes consideration of fire hazard further More...

CURRENT New Regulations For Bushfire Prone Areas In Force From 8 September 2011 (23/9/11 - E)  Regulations and maps released by State government  More...

CURRENT  VCAT Sets Bar High For Houses In Water Catchments With "Rozen Decision":  That's A "Well Done"  (22/5/10 - P)  Definitive interpretation of State guidelines for development in open, potable water catchments  More...

NEW  Braemar Comes To Its Senses And Divorces Itself From Villawood (24/12/11 - P)  The long journey for the school to recover reputation and community support begins...  More...

CURRENT  Minister For Planning Says State Government Won't "Micro-Manage" Davies Hill/Villawood Proposal (23/10/11 - P)  Processes are in place that should resolve the issue without Government interference.  More...

CURRENT  Davies Hill Goes Down As Council (And The Weather) Rains On Villawood's Parade (7/10/11 - P)  Council votes 8 to 1 to NOT support speculative development proposal for Golf Course Hill, Woodend  More...

CURRENT  Echoes Of AAMI Call Centre Fiasco As Council Falls Over Maccas In Gisborne (13/4/11- P) Rubbish process and rubbish result:10,693 objections weren't enough to put community - and competition - first  More...

CURRENT  Gisborne AAMI Call Centre:  FOI Reveals State Govt's Pivotal Role In 'Making It Happen' (14/11/10 - P)  No honour, no transparency, no process, no democracy - in fact, no stone left unturned to get approval  More...

Massive Residential Development  Planned For Golf Course Hill In Woodend (14/10/06 - P)  There's movement at the station, or so the stories go  More...

Who Is Behind The Massive Development Push At Woodend's Iconic Golf Course Hill? (17/4/07 - P)  MRRA looks at who is behind Davies Hill Pty Ltd - the company selling land to Braemar and no doubt looking in future to rezone the current Farming zone clear the way for massive residential development  It turns out that Woodend local lawyer Mr. HEP (Chinka) Steel, and local development consultant Paul Tomkinson are major players...  More...

NEW  Amendment C84: Local Planning Policy Framework (MSS) Exhibited (24/12/11 - P)  Here we go again.  Council's 2011 Christmas gift to the community - submissions closed December 19  More...

CURRENT Action Required  Planning Goes Backward As Council Abandons Planning Committee Meetings (22/5/11- C)  Less accessibility, less light, less accountability is a recipe for returning to the dark days of the past  More...

NEW  State Govt Introduces Sweeping Changes To Bushfire Planning Provisions In Amendment VC83 (24/12/11 - P)  New Bushfire Management Overlay [BMO] takes consideration of fire hazard further More...

CURRENT   State Government Finalizes New Rules For Wind Energy Facilities  (23/9/11 - E)  Turbines now 'off-limits' in Macedon Ranges  More...

CURRENT  New Regulations For Bushfire Prone Areas In Force From 8 September 2011 (23/9/11 - E)  Regulations and maps released by State government  More...

CURRENT  DPCD Shows Why The 'Median' House Price Depends On Who You Listen To  (23/12/10 - P)  HInt:  It helps if you know who's counting what  More...

ALERT  MRRA Calls For Bipartisan Political Support To Immediately Protect Rural Land and Water Catchments  (6/9/07 - P)  This isn't a political issue.  It's a survival issue.   More...

STATE ELECTION 2010  Macedon Ranges Get State Protection At Last - see MRRA Media Release

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“From the Vision Splendid to The Vision Sullied” (25/6/05 – SP)  A suburban, industrialized future for Macedon Ranges, home of Australian icons,  Mount Macedon and Hanging Rock

The Urban Conversion:  'Victoria In Future' Growth Projections  (29/4/05 - SP) The Hidden Agenda For A Suburban Macedon Ranges

CURRENT  MRRA Meets With Minister For Planning, Matthew Guy, June 22 (17/8/11 - SP)  Statement of Planning Policy No. 8 to be State policy by end of 2011 More...

CURRENT  State Government Sets Up Peri Urban Planning Unit Within Department (13/4/11- P)  First step towards making State Protection a reality for Macedon Ranges  More...

CURRENT  Council's Settlement Strategy: Submissions Extended Until End Of January 2011 (23/12/10 - P)  There's still time to tell them to do it again... More...

CURRENT  Liberal / National Coalition Will Protect Macedon Ranges  (20/11/10 - SG)   After 11 years in the wilderness, a State level protection lifeline at last!  Thank you... More...

CURRENT  'Committee For Melbourne' Thinks Macedon Ranges Is The Place For A Suburb (14/11/10 - P)  CFM aspires to include Gisborne and Riddells Creek (and Macedon) into the Metro area  More...

CURRENT  Macedon Ranges' Settlement Strategy Out For Consultation Until December 17th (14/11/10 - P)   Don't be fooled into thinking this is either about, or good for, Macedon Ranges.  And once again, all we are getting is over 477 pages of information, and crap consultation processes, just before Christmas.  Now that's usually a sign something's wrong... More...

CURRENT   State (Labor) Govt's Regional Strategic Plan Puts Growth Agenda In Place For Macedon Ranges: Council Endorses Plan Without Community Consultation  (13/8/10 - P)  That puts around another 20,000 people and 7,000 houses in the Shire by 2036.  And the State government's VC66 amendment has been put in place (also sans consultation) to implement it.  Hello suburbia!  More...

CURRENT  MR Settlement Strategy: Is Macedon Ranges Making The Decisions, Or The State Government? (29/6/10 - P)  Meagre consultation, shabby process, a whiff of State government agenda and heaps of population growth should be ringing LOUD alarm bells  More...

'Basic' Clarkefield: Push For Ad Hoc New Town By Cr. Geoff Neil Underscores Potential For Suburban Future (18/10/08 - SP)  Needs to be more than just 'empty' land, Geoffrey 

DPCD Orders The 'MACEDON RANGES POLICY' Removed From Our Planning Scheme (29/9/08 - SP)   There's only one reason to do that: to open the door for suburbia  More...

Council Votes To Call On The Minister For Planning To Introduce A RURAL ResCode (11/9/08 - P)  Er, well done...  More...

Hello, Hello, Hello - Where Did Statement Of Planning Policy No. 8 Go? (16/7/08 - P)  Council's 'review' of Macedon Ranges' Municipal Strategic Statement (MSS) and Local Policies sees the Macedon Ranges Policy dropped from the Macedon Ranges planning scheme.   MRRA says, we want it elevated to State policy, not shredded   

Planning Backlash Meets With Planning and Community Development Minister, Justin Madden (17/9/07 - SP) Metro and rural groups put issues forward - and MRRA was there  More...

Planning Minister Hulls Puts Out Labor Planning Policy "Planning In Partnership With Local Communities"  (23/11/06 - P)  Mentions "Macedon"  More...

MRRA Responds To Bracks Government's Advice That It Won't Be Protecting Macedon Ranges (31/10/06 - SP)  MRRA media release says it all: think about what this government is doing - AND NOT DOING - for Macedon Ranges before you vote.  More...

BRACKS GOVERNMENT SAYS IT WON'T PROTECT MACEDON RANGES (14/10/06 - SP)  Nothing will save Macedon Ranges from becoming a suburb now  More...

MRRA Asks For Meeting With Premier Bracks and Ministers Hulls And Thwaites (30/9/06 - SP)  Please tell the Macedon Ranges' community exactly where the government stands on giving us back State level planning protection, says MRRA   More...

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 (3/9/06 - SP)  Tells Dianne Hadden Macedon Ranges is already protected too.  How can a Minister get it so wrong?  More...

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Hidden Urban Agenda

Where Is Western Water's Newly Declared Macedon Sewerage District Taking Us? (16/7/06 - SP)  Side-steps Statement of Planning Policy No. 8 to set a very different agenda for future development  More...

Politicians/Parties

Fran Bailey, MHR McEwen

Ted Baillieu, Opposition Leader Shadow Minister for Planning

David Davis, Shadow Minister for Planning

Robyne Head, Liberal Candidate for Macedon

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