Keeping you up to date with stories about and from the Nillumbik Green Wedge
The Green Wedge is fundamental to our Shire’s identity. It is our responsibility to protect it for ourselves and future generations. This website is sponsored by the Warrandyte Community Association, the Friends of Nillumbik and the Green Wedge Protection Group. Its aim is to educate and inform so that you are in a position to do your bit. To receive our irregular ‘Wedge Bulletins’ sign up here.
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The Green Wedge Management Plan Review – what you should do now.
There are valid criticisms which could be made about the process which the Nillumbik Council has initiated, however we should not ignore it. Nillumbik residents are being asked to do two things right now, and we encourage you to engage. Vote for an Expert There will...
The Green Wedge Management Plan Review: have your say..
Green Wedge Councils are required by the State Government to prepare a Green Wedge Management Plan and to review it periodically. Nillumbik’s GWMP is in two parts, the first containing descriptive and background information and the second...
No 49 Room Hotel for the Manningham Green Wedge
It is clear from clause 57 of the State Planning Provisions that brothels are a prohibited use in the Green Wedges. No argument is possible. Residential hotels are also a prohibited use, but that’s a maybe - argument is possible. A permit may...
Victory for the Green Wedge in Manningham
A proposal to build a hotel and grappa distillery at 46-52 Brumby’s Road South Warrandyte has been rejected by VCAT. This time the site is in the Manningham portion of the Green Wedge. The proposed development was to build, on a 2.35 ha site, a 49 room hotel – revised...
Green Wedge success in Cottles Bridge
Like 2 Pigeon Bank Road, 14 Barreenong Road Cottles Bridge is in the Nillumbik Green Wedge in the Rural Conservation Zone. Unlike Pigeon Bank this case was taken all the way to VCAT by the applicant, which issued its ruling on March 16: a permit was not granted. The...
Development application abandoned prior to hearing
On 22/12 Phillip Mannerheim Holdings Pty Ltd and the Nillumbik Council agreed to VCAT making an order that the Council’s decision to issue a permit for the proposed development at 2 Pigeon Bank Road be set aside and instead that no permit be issued. The CFA has also...
No Deferral: 2 Pigeon Bank Road Hearing to proceed
Last week, on December 12, VCAT rejected the request by the developer to defer the VCAT hearing, now set to run for 4 days starting January 23. The story so far: at its meeting on 14th March the Nillumbik Council overturned the decision by its own officers to disallow...
Council Review: Good news or Bad for the Nillumbik Green Wedge?
At its meeting on 29th August the Nillumbik Council voted, without discussion, to spend $345,000 on an exercise called the ‘Nillumbik Planning Scheme Review’. They say that this project ‘seeks an improved and holistic approach to strategic planning, supported by...
Council Decision on No. 2 Pigeon Bank Road
The decision to grant a permit for the development at 2 Pigeon Bank Road was made at a council sub committee meeting on 14 March 2017. The Senior Planning Officer’s report and recommendations to Council read as follows: That the Committee (acting under delegation from...
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