EMG Projects
With the objective of preserving and protecting the heritage character of East Melbourne, the EMG has successfully listed a number of significant buildings and sites on the State Heritage Register. In addition to these projects, a number of inappropriate high-rise development proposals have been successfully challenged.
In other areas of work, the EMG has taken on a number of amenity projects where essential facilities have been built for the broader community.
Around the year 2000, a stream of major development proposals threatened to change the heritage character and amenity of East Melbourne. The EMG found it necessary to intervene and enter into complex legal challenges against inappropriate proposals. During these difficult years, its prime objective was to achieve an improved outcome or in many cases, stop the proposal altogether.
Whilst facing these challenges, the EMG also became aware of how inadequate the existing planning provisions were in relation to height restrictions in Clarendon Street and Wellington Parade.
The EMG eventually convinced the Melbourne City Council (local planning authority) that there were serious anomalies in the Melbourne Planning Scheme which needed to be addressed. An urban study was then conducted along Clarendon Street and Wellington Parade. After 4 years of work on the project, the Minister for Planning finally agreed to a new set of built form amendments, which became known as Amendment C93.
