Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Southern Metropolitan Region

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (14:12): (1638) My constituency question is for the attention of the Minister for Planning, and it concerns 18 Windsor Avenue in Mount Waverley, opposite Jordanville station. I joined a community demonstration there on Thursday night at 6 pm. In the dark, in the cold, 65 people turned up to say enough is enough. A rooming house is being built there without a proper process. This is Labor’s process. My question to the planning minister is: will you change the rules to ensure that, when a rooming house is going into a clearly suburban area, there is proper notification and proper advice? That is not what happened here. The City of Monash handed over a permit, having told only three households about this, and yet 500 or 600 households are going to be directly impacted. They will not say what people are going in there. Will there be prisoners going in there? They will not say. And they will not say what is going to happen with traffic or parking. It is disgraceful, and the minister should change the rules.