7News Just InElsternwick locals step up their fight against a supermarket giant
Residents in Melbourne’s inner south-east have accused Woolworths of permit shopping in its seven-year battle for a new housing development. The community has rallied against the supermarket giant's latest plans for two high-rise towers, calling on the planning minister to step in.
A seven year David and Goliath battle boiling over on the streets of elston Wick.
Seven years of no means no.
Residents have been fighting against Woolworth's plan for a supermarket and two residential towers at this site since twenty eighteen, backing down when VCAT forced the supermarket giant to scale back its proposal. A battle to bypass that decision has now landed on the Planning Minister's desk. We're worth sighting years of community engagement, Sonya.
The minister today must reject these plans and accept the umpire decisions.
Don't make a mockery a VCAT, and don't make a mockery of the planning process.
The Attorney General isn't the only minister in the spotlight. Just three Labor ministers have completed their diaries on time. That's despite new rules require meetings be declared, a move the state government promised would improve transparency.
It's a mine field of secrets in Spring Street today.
The accusation comes as the Deputy Premier launched a new anti aggression campaign asking the community not to cross the line themselves.
Don't cross the line one thousand acts of aggressions and violence last week, think and behave and act accordingly
Rachelle Brown, seven News
