by Ross Lowrey | Aug 19, 2022 | Commentary, Public Transport, Urban Form
The Town and Country Planning Association fully supports the Rail Futures Institute’s proposal that the East West Metro Rail plan be examined as a better alternative to the Suburban Rail Loop. Read the full article here: TCPA Supports RFI Proposal for East-West Metro...
by Ross Lowrey | Oct 20, 2021 | Commentary, Democratic Planning, Public Transport, Urban Form
By Ross Lowrey The Suburban Rail Loop Bill to create the Suburban Rail Loop Authority will make lasting changes to the way Melbourne is planned. The Bill gives the Premier and SRL Minister complete power to plan and develop SRL Precincts. And it gives the SRL...
by Ray Walford | Jul 18, 2021 | Commentary, Public Transport, Regional Development
TCPA Vice President, Tim Patton, has written an article on the subject of planning for population growth in regional cities. It was published in slightly shortened form in The Age on 15th July 2021. The gist of the article is that the proportion of population growth...
by Ray Walford | Sep 2, 2017 | Commentary, Democratic Planning
TCPA Committee member Marianne Richards wrote a review of the documentary film Citizen Jane: Battle for the City for the August 2017 edition of Planning News, the journal of the Planning Institute of Australia. Jane Jacobs, a journalist, author and activist, is...
by Ray Walford | May 14, 2016 | Commentary, Democratic Planning
The TCPA committee resolved on 1st April 2016 to endorse the “six key steps to successful infrastructure planning” identified by Infrastructure Victoria in its review of good practice in infrastructure: Build consensus through collaboration with the community,...
by Ray Walford | Oct 15, 2015 | Amenity, Commentary, Democratic Planning, Urban Form
We recommend reading the following article that appeared in The Age recently: Big and ugly: the new towers ruining Melbourne’s skyline The Age, by John Carroll, September 24, 2015...
