Tuesday, 18 November 2025

 David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (12:55): My constituency question today is for the Minister for Planning, and it concerns the government’s plan for high-rise, high-density zones, specifically the housing choice and transport zone that is in Hassett’s estate – heritage overlay 191. This is an area near Riversdale Road, and it is an important heritage area that is at risk. I am in possession of significant data from the 1920s and 30s that show the importance of these, including heritage studies going back to 1986 and 1991 by the earlier council for Camberwell. What I am seeking is that the minister intervene and pull back from her decision to put high-rise, high-density zones in these areas of great heritage and importance. It is extraordinary that these would be put at risk. I ask the minister: will she meet with the residents and desist from this process?