The planning minister has approved the redevelopment of a former boys’ school campus in Brighton into modernist townhouses.
A former boys’ school in Brighton will be developed into almost 100 new homes, against the wishes of scores of nearby residents, after the Allan government overruled the local council and green-lit the project.
“Homes don’t get built when they’re held up in VCAT,” Kilkenny said. “We’ll work with councils to make good decisions faster, but everyone needs to be working towards the same goal: more homes for Victorians, close to jobs, transport and services.”A planning committee appointed by the Allan government recommended the development go ahead, in a report published on Wednesday.
The proposal received 159 objections and just one letter of support. Most objections concerned traffic and access.The panel rejected residents’ concerns that the local roads would not cope with the extra traffic generated by the development. It also dismissed objections based on the uniformly flat roof designs of the modernist townhouses.
James Newbury, the MP for Brighton and opposition planning spokesman, said the Labor government had “ripped away the rights of the community from having a say over the future of their own streets and forced a project opposed by residents and council onto Brighton.
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