160 community & environment groups across Melbourne have formed a coalition to protect Melbourne's green wedges. We regard maintaining the green wedges for future generations as a yardstick for our generation's commitment to developing a sustainable city in a sustainable world.

2024 AGM - Victoria's New Plan - Implications for the Green Wedges

The Annual General Meeting of Green Wedge Coalition Incorporated will be held online at 7.30 pm on Friday 15 November 2024.

The agenda is attached and a Zoom link will be sent with RSVPs.

David Redfearn OAM Secretary

AGM - Will the Green Wedges Action Plan protect the Green Wedges

"Will the Green Wedges Action Plan protect the Green Wedges?" Guest Speaker Emeritus Professor Michael Buxton, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT.

Green Wedges Coalition Inc. AGM 7:30pm on Thursday 28th March, 2024

RSVP by Tues 26 March 2024 to David Redfearn: dredfearn@vtown.com.au and a Zoom link will be emailed to you
(cc Rosemary West: rowest@ozemail.com.au)

Minister launches Green Wedge Action Plan, but will it protect the Green Wedges?

The Green Wedges Coalition welcomed the Labor Government’s 2018 election pledge to tighten controls to better protect Melbourne’s Green Wedges and peri-urban farmland. It was a popular pledge: every community consultation since the 2002 Melbourne 2030 strategy has found overwhelming support for protecting the Green Wedges for their environment and biodiversity, agriculture, open space and scenic rural landscapes.

We are pleased we now have a Minister in Sonya Kilkenny who wants to fulfil her predecessor’s promise to ‘protect Melbourne’s Green Wedges from urban and inappropriate uses’ and to  ‘permanently tighten controls to better protect Melbourne’s green wedges against over development.’    We welcome the controls the Action Plan plans to tighten and the extension of Green-Wedge-style protections for agricultural land in the peri-urban areas within 100k of the CBD.

But there seem to be no actions in this plan to effectively achieve these reforms.  We are concerned that the Action Plan fails to address the perennial problem of urban uses encroaching into the Green Wedges. 

LIVEABLE VICTORIA MANIFESTO’ LAUNCH

Residents and community groups across Melbourne and regional Victoria are hitting back against State Government plans to rip environmental and amenity protections from the Victorian Planning Scheme, deny resident rights to object to development proposals and strip planning powers from local government. Planning Democracy and the Green Wedges Coalition are launching the ‘Livable Victoria Manifesto’ to push for progressive, democratic planning reforms and reject the demands of developers and their State Government backers.

BATTLING ON - BROKEN PROMISES AND DASHED HOPES FROM STATE GOVERNMENT

BATTLING ON:  BROKEN PROMISES AND DASHED HOPES FROM STATE GOVERNMENT;  OPPOSITION PICKS UP THE BATON AND PLEDGES TO SAVE THE CHAIN OF PARKS. 

Last year we were enthusiastically waiting to see how the Planning Minister planned to fulfil his promise to improve Planning for Melbourne’s Green Wedges and Agricultural Land, a project that was supposed to implement the State Government's 2018 election promises.  We had been encouraged by the government's commitments to “tighten controls to better protect Melbourne’s Green Wedges from over-development,” to improve protection for agricultural land, and to protect the environment, landscape, agriculture, and rural industry of each area, and put a cap on the size of developments.” 

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