Darebin Appropriate Development Association

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Council Election 2020

Who is Standing for Election to Darebin Council in 2020

Thanks to Serena O’Meley for her work in compiling the following list of 2020 council candidates and posting on her Facebook page.

There are some mistakes regarding former DADA members that need correcting.

Nick McCubbin, running in South West Ward, is a former member of DADA as is Craig Walters, running in Central Ward and Susan Rennie running in South Central Ward.  DADA does not endorse any of these candidates in the 2020 election.

 

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Election Claims: Susan Rennie, South Central Ward

 

Development controls are administered by the State Government, as the council keeps telling us.  This Councillor has not delivered State planning controls.  She also voted against a local heritage overlay to protect Preston Market from being demolished, moved and rebuilt on the site a specific instant of voting against support for quality planning controls.

Dispute the claim of increased access to council meetings, statistical analysis shows that the number of Planning Committee Meetings were reduced to nearly half of the number during the last council term.  72 meetings for the 2012-2016 council compared to only 40 for the 2016-2020 council,  having public oversight of only 95 planning applications as compared to the 394 of the previous council.

As Mayor, Cnr Rennie has delivered a reduction in community submission time at Planning Committee Meetings.

DADA has not seen data to back up the claims on community consultation.  We note that though we asked twice, at council meetings, when the new planning governance rules, the ‘call it in’ process would be evaluated we were not consulted on the eventual review which happened this year and which was listed for only two weeks on the council website.