Tuesday, 17 February 2026

 Rachel WESTAWAY (Prahran) (14:38): (1504) My constituency question is to the Minister for Planning. Why is the minister overriding a plan that exceeds her own housing targets and that will strip the village heart out of Windsor, Prahran and Hawksburn? Our community supports more housing. Young people in Prahran deserve the chance to live in the community they love, not to be priced out of it. We want development, but we want it done right. Stonnington City Council already has a plan that does exactly that. It was built with the community and not imposed on them. It delivers 67,000 additional dwellings by 2051; that is 17,000 more homes than the government’s own target. Yet the government has released draft activity centre maps for South Yarra, Prahran, Windsor, Hawksburn and Toorak proposing six to 16 storeys in cores and three to six storeys spread across residential streets up to 800 metres from stations. Council was not even briefed before these maps hit the media.