News Articles by Kate Russell

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.

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.

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.

ECAG is no stranger to VCAT but before its eventual conclusion this week, a recent matter led to an ECAG first, an online VCAT hearing.

Following ECAG’s nomination of the Eltham War Memorial Buildings for inclusion in the Victorian Heritage Register, we are disappointed that the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria has made a recommendation that the buildings should not be included. 

Do you want Eltham’s entrance and town centre to look like any commercial stretch in any suburb, covered with advertising along Main Road from the Fitzsimons Lane roundabout through the Town Centre?

This Eltham Activity Structure Plan Review follows the Council Plan 2017 -21 decision to, “Review ….to encourage investment and development’.

Major Road Projects Victoria released the latest design update this week and, unfortunately, it’s bad news.

Nillumbik Economic Development and Tourism Unit is proposing the erection of five 8m high flagpoles, with 1,8m high x 0,9m wide banners for ‘promotional signage’ in Eltham.