The Melbourne City Council on recent planning decisions:
The council has said it wanted to strengthen planning controls to protect the city against towers being approved by Planning Minister Justin Madden’s department and the state’s planning tribunal. [...] ¶ A report from council officers says the CBD’s small streets and lanes, “emblematic of the best of the Melbourne urban character”, are being damaged by decisions of the department and tribunal. The scale, grain and character of these valued city precincts is being undermined by a growing number of development proposals out of scale with these settings,” the report says.
This is the same Melbourne City Council that acceded to the demolition of Lonsdale House because it wants to sell the adjoining laneway to be turned into another generic shopping strip. Outrageous hypocrisy.