Southern Metropolitan Region
David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (14:41): (1684) My constituency question today relates to 18 Windsor Avenue, Mount Waverley, in my electorate and the proposal to build a large and impactful rooming house at that location. This has been overwhelming the local community. The community is very angry. I hosted a large rally there recently on a cold winter night. We had more than 65 people turn up at relatively short notice. But the minister is not acting to help the community. The local member Matt Fregon is in hiding on this issue. The truth is that the community were not properly consulted and there has been a failure of the planning process. What I am asking the minister to do is to review the planning requirements for these matters – for rooming houses in these kinds of locations – to ensure that there is proper notification to communities. It is completely unacceptable the way it is at the moment, with government riding roughshod over local communities, Matt Fregon in hiding and the council actually aiding and abetting this.