Category: Planning for Growth

Planning for Growth

Booming Melbourne to become nation’s largest city by 2026

Melbourne is adding 327 people a day as it draws residents from around the globe and around the state with new figures revealing the city’s population swelling and on track to overtake Sydney within a decade.

Australian Bureau of Statistics data showed the Greater Melbourne area added 119,421 residents through 2017-18, taking the city’s total population to a record 5 million.

It’s the fourth successive year in which Melbourne has added more than 100,000 residents although last year’s result was slightly down on the 125,424 who swelled the city in 2016-17.

Melbourne reached 4.5 million residents in mid-2016 and has now added more than 460,000 people in three years. Over the same period, Sydney added 300,000 residents.

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Planning for Growth, Uncategorized

Casey council, where riches are made with the stroke of a pen

Does money takes over planning and votes? Whenit does who pays?(ODT)

Mr Woodman is a multi-millionaire planning consultant, developer, and head of Mornington-based consultancy Watsons. His who’s who client list has included, or includes, the Fox, Ansett and Baillieu-Myer clans, as well as Tony Madafferi, the man police have alleged to be Melbourne’s mafia boss.

And at the last state election, Mr Woodman was the single biggest property industry donor to the Liberal Party.

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Planning for Growth

State of the Environment Report 2016: What is Australia’s carrying capacity?

We need to recognise Australia’s very limited human carrying capacity before it’s too late, writes Sue Arnold.

Source: State of the Environment Report 2016: What is Australia’s carrying capacity?