Event Description.

The State Government has included Blackburn in the 60 new 'Activity Centres'. This is a permanent town planning zoning change which allows higher and denser development, and removes your voice to appeal development. Come along to this public forum, run by local community groups, to learn more about the impacts of this zoning change. Speakers with backgrounds and experience in local government, architecture and planning, ecology, and local residents with insights who will give you everything you need to make an impactful submission that tells the State Government what you love most about Blackburn and why it should be protected.

Please RSVP if you plan to attend or would just like to be kept informed.

Agenda

1.30-1.40pm	MC - Eileen Kershaw - opens the Forum.
1.40-2.05pm (25 mins)	Jeff Green - Director City Development at Whitehorse City Council	Outline of the Planning Zones/Significant Landscape Overlays (SLOs), and background and process for Activity Centres and how the community can be involved.
2.05-2.20pm	Questions - open floor.
2.20-2.45pm (25 mins)	Mike Scott – Planning Consultant and Developer at Charter 21	Threats to Blackburn’s SLO areas’ amenity arising from higher density housing - how good design could ameliorate.
2.45-3.00pm	Questions - open floor.
3.00-3.20pm	Afternoon tea break
3.20–3.35pm (15 mins)	Megan Short - local ecologist and Chair of the Blackburn Creeklands Committee	The significant ecological values of the Blackburn SLO areas and how rezoning to medium density will impact local ecology.
3.35-3.45pm	Questions - open floor.
3.45-4.00pm (15 mins)	Rob Weiss - local resident and President of the Bellbird Residents Advocacy Group (BRAG)	History of the Blackburn SLOs and how community action has created and protected what we currently enjoy. What the community now can do to try to maintain this - including how to make an impactful submission to the Activity Centre process as a TIMBY (Thoughtfully In My Back Yard) - not a NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard).
4.00-4.10pm	Questions - open floor.
4.10-4.30pm	Final Questions. Session Close – MC: Eileen Kershaw.

For more information, please visit https://www.crowag.com/events

Supported by:

Blackburn Village Residents Group (BVRG)

Bellbird Residents Advocacy Group (BRAG)

Blackburn Village Residents Group (BVRG)

Contact the host of PUBLIC FORUM, BLACKBURN 'ACTIVITY CENTRE'