Thursday, 28 August 2025

Southern Metropolitan Region

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (12:47): (1787) My constituency question is to the Minister for Planning. Windsor Avenue in Mount Waverley is the subject of an application for a boarding house, which is completely inappropriate in the location that is proposed. It is right near the station. It is near a particular family area. The community are in uproar about this. Indeed –

Michael Galea: That’s not in your backyard, Mr Davis.

David DAVIS: It is actually in my electorate. It is in my electorate, and I have been very active on this. I have been out to a rally. We had a large rally some weeks ago. There were 65 or 70 people there at 7 o’clock on a dark night, and they were all very unhappy with the planning minister – and with the member for Ashwood, I might add. Today the matter is at VCAT, and I am hopeful that the state government will change the law here so that this cannot occur nearby to Windsor Avenue in future, whatever the result of the VCAT case today. I wish the community well in their fight.