Minister's blueprint for the future - Government - News - Lilydale & Yarra Valley Leader:
"STATE Planning Minister Matthew Guy today released a discussion paper about planning for Melbourne's future.
The discussion paper called Melbourne, let's talk about the future, will shape the Government's Metropolitan Planning Strategy.
It includes nine key principles on what could be done to plan for population growth up until the year 2050.
Mr Guy said the discussion paper focused on the positives of past planning strategies as well as new ideas to make Melbourne one of the world's "most livable cities"."
Comment: Worth a read...
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2 comments:
To be quite frank Mario, i'm not going to bother reading the whole document...just the main points. It seems to me the only way the Liberals govt are going to achieve affordable housing is to build more units to house the lower income groups into accommodation which is going to have to cost not more than 50% of the average house of $400,000 in an area like Coldstream. And given that most public housing tenants vote Labour, I can't really see a fast push to have more public housing in marginal seats... but i could be wrong and they might want to retire early. The document promoting public housing reads like a Labor Party manifesto as it will be the haves who will be taxed by the Libs to enable these cheap deals to be offered.
My immediate thinking is that there are a great deal of cheap houses awaiting purchase at around $100,000 plus $50,000 for modernisation in outer full service regional country towns like St Arnaud which need people to fill their schools etc which could be used to fill up with public housimg applicants without it costing the earth to have them in Metropolitan melb to go get a sunday latte, which after all the unemployable dont need to be near public transport routes if they are not going to be going to work. Let the workers have the privilege to be near the inner city transport routes is my opinion and not congest our cities with more enclaves of layabouts.
I spent a few hours reading it but all I can recall is the new term "BROWN WEDGES".
A lot of word but little substance.
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