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Archive for February, 2009

Keep Coburg’s ‘lungs’ for public: MP

Kate Lahey, The Age, February 18, 2009
A RARE slice of parkland in Melbourne’s north should be given to the public, not sold for profit as planned by state authorities, a federal Labor MP says.
Kelvin Thomson has written to a state inquiry saying VicRoads must be prevented from selling the “lungs” of Coburg — 10 hectares [...]

Kelvin Thomson’s VEAC submission

As mentioned in a recent update, Kelvin Thomson encouraged residents to make submissions to the VEAC review of Crown land, and advised of his own intent to do so.  Kelvin’s submission to the Metropolitan Land Inquiry titled; The Edgars Creek Parkland. The lungs of the Coburg Community, makes two recommendations along the lines of retaining the parkland as [...]