CoRBA has joined with Friends of the Royal Exhibition Building & Carlton Gardens (FREBCG) in hopefully protecting the special heritage place from such a development. You may have noticed the site – forming an apex between Latrobe and Victoria Streets opposite the WH REB & Carlton Gardens. As far as we know for this 330 metre tower 18 metres wide …
Corba submission: MIFGS objection
The “Friends of the Royal Exhibition Building & Carlton Gardens” ( FREBCG), together with Fitzroy Residents’ Association (FRA) and CoRBA, have made a submission to Heritage Victoria outlining our objections to the current permit application by The Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show (MIFGS) for use of the Unesco World Heritage Carlton Gardens in March 2019. This is the 23rd …
Corba’s submission Air Services Amendment Bill 2018
Corba has made a submission in support of the Air Services Amendment Bill 2018 which addresses issues of noise, safety and amenity for the community.
ROYAL EXHIBITION BUILDING – Project Delivery Fails to Meet Community Expectations
In 2012 Museum Victoria (MV) received a Federal Government grant of $20 million to be used for the Royal Exhibition Building’s Protection & Promotion (P&P) project, made possible by the local community’s lobbying Federal Member Adam Bandt. The “Roam the Dome”project involved reinstating the derelict Dome structure for visitors to re-experience history, and importantly, to recognise the building’s place in …
2016 City of Melbourne Council Elections – jostling already? “Limit the term of office of the Lord Mayor” says CoRBA
CoRBA’s position as stated in its submission to the Local Government Act review 2015, page 14 is: “CoRBA recommends that a person should be restricted to not more than two consecutive terms as Lord Mayor. This is to curb the potential for a monopoly on the office, whereby a person effectively becomes ‘Lord Mayor for Life’. Our proposal refers to …
CoRBA’s submission to the Local Government Act Review 2015
Corba’s submission in 2015 is a further refinement of previous submissions about local government reform.
Ban developer donations to political parties? CoRBA’s position.
CoRBA’s official position on a ban on developer donations to political parties, as reflected in our submission to the 2013 Local Government Review is: ‘It is CoRBA’s view that it is unfair and simplistic to ban donations from a particular class of corporate donor, such as property developers (who are no more or less inclined than any other business …
CoRBA meets with Melbourne City Council CEO Ben Rimmer
We had a CoRBA meeting with the City of Melbourne CEO Ben Rimmer on 12/08/2015. We decided that each group would send their particular issues to Ben in advance, or hand them to him at the meeting. Carlton Residents’ Association sent him a submission in advance which he touched on at the meeting, a submission that contains the voice of …
Melbourne International Flower and Gardens Show
CoRBA’s submission on the Melbourne International Flower and Gardens Show Below are the minutes from the April 2011 FMC Meeting relevant to the submissions made regarding the Flower Show (MIFGS).