Wednesday, 19 November 2025

 James NEWBURY (Brighton) (10:38): Thousands from Bayside and around Melbourne set out on Sunday for a community action walk in Brighton opposed to state Labor’s forced high-rise tower policy. As we know, the Premier has approved a plan for an 8-kilometre-long development zone from Brighton to Sandringham. It will allow towers up to 16 storeys high to be built in Bayside, with six-storey developments in residential streets. Instead of creating four activity centres in Bayside, as state Labor originally indicated, they will join North Brighton, Middle Brighton, Hampton and Sandringham into one activity centre that is 8 kilometres long. The 8-kilometre-long zone represents Jacinta Allan’s Gold Coast plan for Bayside. Under the new system the state Labor government determines what can be built in those locations, and developers have a right to build within the allowable envelope. The community no longer has current planning law rights. The Liberal Party does not support Jacinta Allan’s plan for our community and will scrap it.

After almost a year of hiding their true intentions, the Labor government have also admitted that they intend to allow apartment towers to be built on train station car parks. The policy will scrap 80, leaving only 35 car park spots, in Middle Brighton station and 75, leaving 45 spots, at North Brighton station.

Instead of listening to the loud concerns of the community, yesterday the Premier mocked the thousands of Melburnians who attended the community walk. That says everything about this government and about this Premier.

Members interjecting.

James NEWBURY: No, she mocked them, mate. She mocked them.