A proposed planning amendment aimed at reducing pokies in Melbourne’s city centre has been sitting on the former planning minister’s desk for three years, stalling the long-sought reforms.
The City of Melbourne has approved a new development with 50 poker machines at the corner of Lonsdale street and Hardware Lane.
At the Future Melbourne Committee meeting last week, the council called for Victorian Planning Minister Lizzie Blandthorn to urgently approve amendment C366, which was submitted to former planning minister Richard Wynne on August 30, 2019. Planning Minister Lizzie Blandthorn has a list of outstanding planning applications sitting on her desk.“The City of Melbourne think there should be more done to regulate whether and how gaming venues can operate across our municipality. That’s why we introduced a planning scheme amendment, C366, [to the] gaming policy way back in 2019 to better regulate where gaming venues can operate in our city.
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