Social Media

Residents’ Change Campaign

Monash Residents are uniting to support a common cause – SUSTAIN MONASH - to stop the ongoing negative impact of poor planning and implementation of Melbourne 2030 developments in Monash. As such, we are providing the following social media tools for supporting this campaign:

  1. Petition for a Sustainable Monash, which shares information about why residents aka voters are concerned what our governments are not doing to enhance and protect our neighbourhood character, liveability and sustainability.
  2. FaceBook – breaking up residents and community groups in Monash who are at risk with inappropriate developments; and helping residents communicate and sharing concerns & resolve of inappropriate medium + high density developments in their local neigbourhoods.
  3. Sustain Monash Twitter – broadcasting information and events relating to our planning/development issues &  resolutions impacting Monash sustainability.

SUSTAIN MONASH is about:

  1. Inviting (again) our governments to collaborate with residents to make improvements and changes to the ways Melbourne 2030 style planning and developments are being implemented in Monash.
  2. Making our governments socially and environmentally responsible for what they are doing to our neighbourhoods with their ongoing poor governance and implementation of Melbourne 2030 policy changes and developments.
  3. Making our governments provide Monash communities the choice of affordable and diversity of housing options that give the disadvantaged and others quality and open space residences and supporting communities, not just high-rise and what-governments-want solutions.
  4. Asking our governments to be open, honest & proactive in engaging and communicating effectively with Monash communities in matters of local planning; and showing transparency of planning decision criteria that includes respect for and enhances our neighbourhood character, liveability and sustainability while  ensuring  good & sustainable outcomes.
  5. Asking our governments to own accountability and hence be willing to be measured for delivering good planning and development outcomes that enhance and continue the desired local neighbourhood character, liveability and sustainability; and as well as fixing bad outcomes.

SUSTAIN MONASH is NOT about doing nothing that continues the current situation of our governments:

  1. Rejecting comunity invitations to engage and collaborate with residents to acknowledge and fix the bad situation in local planning and developments caused by the poor localisation & implementation of Melbourne 2030.
  2. Fast tracking Melbourne 2030 style developments in Monash to meet political agendas and timelines, and increase future rate and other economic revenue streams while risking and compromising social and environment liveability & sustainability.
  3. Dividing communities over the issues of fostering high density and what-government-or-developer-want housing as the only solution of achieving affordable and diversity of housing as in the Ashburton/Gateway project case; and unwilling to provide other and better options of solutions that respect and enhance our local neighbourhoods’ characters, liveability and sustainability; making and repeating stupid motherhood leadership statements about supporting affordable housing for the good of all, etc.
  4. Doing closed-door negotiations and planning with each other, fabricating information to push for political agendas, consulting with communities in a one-way communication manner, showing arrogance and terse distancing to communities who want to improve the planning process, unable and/or unwilling to qualify and show transparency in planning and open space development decisions, disengaging communities and unconcerned about local impact of their planning processes and decisions.
  5. Not owing responsibility for:
    • The local social and environmental impact risks and issues they are creating while fast tracking Melbourne 2030 style developments and economy stimulus agendas in our neighbourhoods,
    • Fragmenting and confusing communities to better push in their political progress,
    • The social and environmental consequences of empowering opportunistic developers leverage the VCAT process to and approving permits that deliver development outcomes that disrespect local neighbourhood character, continue to erode local liveability and disregard intergenerational sustainability
    • Localising and improving local planning standards that focus to fulfil Melbourne 2030 compliance with no, small or blur residents’ benefits.