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Archive for January, 2009

VEAC submission ideas

Interested in making a submission to the VEAC review of Crown land?  Don’t know where to start?  We’ve put together a few ideas you might like to include in addition to your personal experiences that make the park special to you.  The purpose of the review is to better understand the value the community places on [...]

Kelvin Thomson urges VEAC submissions

Great to find a letter in the mailbox today from Kelvin Thomson MP, advising he will be making a submission to VEAC’s investigation into Crown land, and encouraging local residents to ’secure the future liveability of our fine community’ to also make a submission.
Kelvin has consistently shown his support for this cause and hopefully his [...]

Crown land investigation

The Minister for Environment and Climate Change has requested the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council (VEAC) to carry out an investigation of Crown land and public authority land in 29 municipalities in metropolitan Melbourne.
The purposes of the investigation are to:
(a) systematically identify and assess the uses, resources, condition, values and management of Crown land, and public [...]

Review, and you, to bring order to open-space race

Melissa Fyfe, The Age, January 4, 2009
MELBOURNE residents who want more or better parks in their neighbourhoods have been urged to make submissions about the use of public land.
The State Government has advertised for submissions on the use of Crown land across 29 Melbourne municipalities and the Shire of Cardinia, east of the city.
Specifically, Spring [...]