Archive:  Rural Living Strategy

Last Updated  27/3/08

Macedon Ranges' Rural Living Strategy - Opportunity For Residents To Comment

(3/3/08 - P)   Download the response form here

Following on from three recent forums addressing Council's Rural Living Strategy, residents are able to send comments to Council until Friday 7th March.  Click here to download a response form and details of who to send it to.

MRRA Says:

From what we are hearing, there is no shortage of people putting in requests to rezone or subdivide their land.  So if you don't want a ring of rural house blocks along the Shire's southern boundary (MRRA has heard wall-to-wall 2 ha lots from Gisborne to Clarkefield may be under consideration), or if you want rural land to be protected from "market demand" responses (i.e. because some people want it), please make sure your voice is heard by putting in some comments. It doesn't have to be a lot, but Council needs to hear that there are other perspectives than those which favour low-density suburbanization of Macedon Ranges.

Council's Rural Living Strategy Meetings 25th and 28th February

(24/2/08 - P)  Have your say, particularly if you value Macedon Ranges' rural land and want it to still be around in the future

The final 2 public consultation meetings preliminary to production of a draft Rural Living Strategy are scheduled for this coming Monday (25th) in Gisborne and Thursday (28th) in Romsey.  Please note that these 'meetings' are actually a rolling series of presentations and discussion forums (i.e. not a single public meeting).  You will be able to discuss your views and issues with Council's consultant and planning staff.  There are multiple presentation sessions which run for about an hour.  This format is intended to allow people to come along at a time most convenient for them (although MRRA believes some later sessions were warranted to accommodate residents who get home after 7pm). Click here for details re location and times. 

MRRA Says:

This is a critical issue.  There are those who would have all of the Shire translated into one big rural residential living estate.  A more considered approach is needed, and so is your input, to provide a range of views about the Shire's future.  Please go along and have your say...