It would be, if it were NOT an emerging and outrageous reality!
Planning in Melbourne is resulting in an increasing number of frighteningly high-density areas throughout our suburbs. Suburbs that had previously evolved 'organically' over time into suburbs of character!
Now, an irreversible 'densification experiment' is destroying the character and amenity of those same suburbs.
One area in Bayside being transformed by this 'densification experiment' is circled in the image above.
This 'new mini-suburb' could be jokingly named 'Highdensityham' (Highett+Density+Sandringham)... but it is NO JOKE to those residents who have made it their neighbourhood community.
Consideration of the outrageous implications of such 'suburban densification' has either, not been given or has been totally ignored by so-called 'planners'.
Such unbalanced and ill-conceived planning needs to STOP!
ALSO... the Government policy of promoting the sale of residential properties to Non-Resident (overseas) buyers should STOP. It increases home prices AND reduces home availability for Australian residents!
The carbon tax is a joke! Research shows that high density living means much higher per capita greenhouse gas emissions. These lifestyles mean more reliance on power through buttons and switches, without trees, eaves, natural cooling and heating, and no ability to recycle or harvest vegetables or water. People would support a carbon tax if it was not just a token gesture. Our population growth and enforcement into high density housing will negate any efforts to reduce ghg emissions. Environmental groups should wake up - we are all part of the same cause?
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