Archive:  Amendment C8 (Residential & Industrial)

Last Updated 10/6/06

State Government Gazettes 2003 "Lapse" Of Infamous Amendment C8

(15/5/06 - P)  What's going on?  Wasn't C8 abandoned when Council walked away from it in 2004?

Amendment C8 (i.e. the amendment derived from the 1999 Residential and Industrial Land Review) officially ran out of time around July 2003. Macedon Ranges Council wrote to the then Minister for Planning via the Department of Sustainability and Environment's Bendigo office, asking for more time - the letter apparently got lost.  The upshot was that Minister Mary Delahunty appointed a Ministerial Advisory Committee which assessed C8 in late November 2003.  In what could be termed 'a day of infamy', the Committee's report to the Minister, recommending Amendment C8 be abandoned (C8, any part or variation of it, not proceed), was accidentally leaked to a developer (who used the report at VCAT) before Macedon Ranges Council and community saw it.  Council subsequently resolved to abandon Amendment C8.

MRRA Says:

This one has us stumped.  Why would the government publish a notice that the amendment lapsed in 2003, now?  Is it just housekeeping, or could there be something else happening?   It seems odd to suddenly recognize that C8 lapsed three years ago.  And saying it 'lapsed' doesn't capture the history of what actually happened. If anyone's got any clues about this, we would love to hear them.