Thursday, 14 August 2025

Main Street, Greensborough, development

Richard WELCH (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (17:26): (1847) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Planning. In Greensborough the government has approved a 17-storey apartment building of one- and two-bedroom apartments. The planning has allowed for smaller than regulation-sized rooms in those apartments. The building does not have adequate parking for the future residents. It has no open space, has no provisions for families and has been met with shock and horror by the residents of Greensborough, who have responded to me and a petition en masse, such that it is absolutely worthy of a community forum. I have also spoken to the Banyule council, in which Greensborough resides, about their dissatisfaction with the whole process and about how this oversized building would be placed in the middle of Greensborough with no additional social infrastructure when available Crown land and other land for housing is simply laying moribund. It is completely disproportionate in scale and in situ, but it is also inefficient in that there is other readily available land waiting to be developed to address housing issues. The community naturally have a lot of concerns. We already have approaching 200 people registered for the community forum on Monday 8 September. The action I seek is that the minister make herself available to come and talk to residents at that community forum.