After a long period of buck passing, inertia and gridlock, delays and disagreements, it seems like there is finally some progress on fixing the riverfront. Yarra Bend council approval for riverfront protection is the next step. Council to respond to Glenvill Glenvill is responsible for ‘handing back’ the area

Last spring and the spring before, the riverfront faced significant erosion. Can we end the standoff on riverfront rehabilitation before new runoff patterns upset the steep slope of industrial waste soil perched above the riverfront path? When the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) resolved that the riverfront would

The VCAT decision on Glenville’s application to exceed the DPO building heights has been published publicly. This post is going to give you a quick overview of the judgements and why they happened, but the full text is available here: Links to VCAT Ref P1815/2020 & P1816/2020 8 main

Glenvill goes to VCAT this month to argue for a plan – previously rejected by Yarra Council – where every building on the Chandler Highway interface breaks DPO limits. Glenvill’s Planning Application  is now scheduled at  VCAT, after almost a year of scheduling delay. The proposal is in fact a

Our knowledgeable, talented and tenacious President, Fiona Currie, has again penned a Presidents Report. It remains the most concise summary of the year’s events around the Alphington Paper Mill development, it’s impact on us – and our impact on it!. Together with a network of other community groups, and

Darebin Trail is a beautiful piece of public infrastructure that runs through Alphington. You just can’t get to it from Alphington. And you thought ‘You can’t get there from here‘ was supposed to be an absurdist joke… The Link was committed to in 2017, and after a long process,

Extra Asbestos Risk Management as the demolition continues Demolition continues on the Boiler House Building – one of the long running sagas on the APMAG agenda. The big issue right now is the careful handling of asbestos. There is significant known asbestos in the building, and management processes are