Here also at the confluence of Merri and Edgars creek we implore retention of open space that can only help with quality of water runoff.

Our governments should be visionaries
We respect commercial realities but be careful that this should also look at a holistic plan and the otherwise long term indirect costs to the community -
We need to maintian the physical, mental and moral health of our communities for the future.
This is not just a matter of flogging off an asset to pay for todays dinner.
Governments need to work harder to make savings and efficiencies in other areas so that green space is preserved.
Beware the placebo of Urban consolidation.

your article on open space hit the nail on the head we are battling the Eddington Reports suggestions of using JJ Holland Park and Royal Park as staging posts for the construction of the tunnel -open space just doesnot to be on the radar and we are constatntly been told by policitians that well we all have to suffer pain for the greater good -I went to the consultation with Lyn Kosky on the transportation plan yesterday and I then went onto the planning table which to say the least was interesting. A few on the table had already identified preserving open space as a priority ,the facilitator was trying to guide us to requiring planning schemes and overlay or demographic reports which the reflect the impact on a local community of loss of open space. As I pointed out we have all the planning schemes and government policies (see the submission by @leisure in respect to the Eddington Report) we need to preserve open space but what needs to happen is that the Government needs to adhere to its on policies and the planning policies of local government. I do not understand why open space is being sacrificed every where we turn.