Eltham Community Action Group

Eltham War Memorial Buildings

Over two years ago, after the then Nillumbik Shire Council invited developers to submit proposals for the old Shire Office site and War Memorial Buildings complex, Eltham Community Action Group started a petition against this inappropriate development. As the end of 2018 drew to a close, the petition containing well over two thousand signatures was […]

Roundabout Petition

Petition to Minister for Transport Infrastructure, Jacinta Allan

Roundabout

Fitzsimons Lane/ Main Road Eltham Upgrade to be undertaken by Major Road Projects Victoria (MRPV)
Just an upgrade? Then why should we be concerned?

Action needed to save roundabout

Eltham Community Action Group (ECAG) is reaching out to you because 2900 people signed a petition to the State Government in 2019 horrified at the proposed removal of the Fitzsimons Lane Eltham roundabout and hundreds of trees yet their concerns do not appear to have been taken into account.

Fitzsimons Lane (Eltham end) roundabout – Redesign rather than Replacement!

Without any consultation since March 2020 and under the cover of the COVID-19 lockdown Major Road Projects Victoria (MRPV) has been finalising the design and preparing to build a massively overdesigned signalised intersection at this site.

Trees not in designated Bushfire Prone Areas safe from 10/30!

ECAG has long been concerned about the indiscriminate use of the 10/30 bushfire exemptions which has led to clear felling of many urban Eltham blocks by developers who took advantage of the exemptions to remove vast numbers of trees for purposes other than bushfire mitigation.