Simon Craig, Moreland Leader, 22nd February 2010
A resident group fighting to keep Moreland’s largest open space off-limits to developers remains nervous about the site’s future.
VicRoads has owned the 10ha Merri Edgars Creeks parklands in Coburg North since 1970s, when it was bought for a now-abandoned planned freeway between Bell St and the Western Ring Rd. It [...]
Andre Awadalla, Moreland Leader, 11th November 2009
The fight to keep the Edgars Creek parkland in Coburg North as public open space is still on the agenda.
As previously reported in the Leader, the Merri and Edgars Creek Parkland Group and Moreland Council have repeatedly lobbied for VicRoads to gift the land to the council.
On Friday, Planning [...]
Pictured is MECPG member Irene taking the “Save our Park” message direct to Buckingham Palace.
The Merri and Edgars Creek Parkland Group (MECPG) have been fighting now for three years to keep the Edgars Creek parkland as public open space. MECPG has become increasingly frustrated at the inability of the State Government to do the only [...]
On 3 August the Moreland Leader published an affirmation of the council’s support for the retention of the Edgars Creek parkland as public open space. (see attached article). We need hundreds of concerned residents to email or phone Andrew Mackinnon supporting the retention of the parkland and asking to be kept informed on what is [...]
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 [...]
