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The Greens’ Plan for a better, more liveable inner-city The Melbourne electorate has ’s highest proportion of flat and apartment dwellings (80.9%) and the state’’s lowest proportion of households with two or more vehicles (16.2%). Apartment dwelling is becoming a way of life in Melbourne, but approval of poor quality, high density homes without consultation is threatening the quality of inner-city life.

The Greens have a plan for better-quality inner-city homes. 1. Reinstate notice and appeal rights in the Capital City Zone Unlike other municipalities, planning applications in the Capital City Zone (CCZ) are exempt from notice and review provisions. This means that where buildings are proposed to be demolished or constructed, owners or occupiers of neighbouring properties are not even required to be told of the proposal, and are not allowed input into the decision-making process. Residents in the CCZ, including body corporates and residents groups, have long called for the reinstatement of basic planning rights, and Greens on council have fought to reinstate planning rights in the central city for many years.

2. Remove the Planning Minister’s power over city tower approvals Under the old parties, planning ministers have been given successively greater powers to ride roughshod over local governments and community groups. Currently the Minister is the responsible authority for planning applications involving buildings with a proposed floor area of 25,000sqm. These fast and loose laws have let Planning Ministers like Matthew Guy approve poorly planned developments with no consultation. The assessment of planning applications should be conducted transparently by Melbourne City Council.

3. Bring forward the release of apartment design guidelines Melbourne lags behind other cities in not having released apartment design guidelines, with the Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure delaying the planned release of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect’s review into standards until after the caretaker period. Melbourne urgently needs minimum standards of access to sun, air-flow and tower separation, to avoid making ghettoes in our inner-city.

4. Better development quality through cradle-to-grave architect involvement Melbourne can afford a high quality built environment in our central city. The Greens will amend the Planning and Environment Act 1987 to require that a standard condition of any permit to construct a large building in the central city be that the original architect be retained throughout the process from planning approval through to completion of construction.

5. Ban developer donations Melbourne’s future has been in the hands and pockets of property developers and vested interests for too long. The Greens will introduce tighter laws banning political donations from property developers, and requiring real-time disclosure of election donations, rather than waiting up to 18 months after an election to find out who donated to political parties.

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