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The Victorian government has pledged to maintain the urban growth boundary to prevent further urban sprawl in Melbourne. Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny confirmed that future development will be restricted to protect green wedges and agricultural land.
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This policy decision sets a clear battleline for the upcoming state election, highlighting the tension between housing demand and environmental preservation.
The planning minister draws a policy battleline about our city’s future shape before the state election, as we investigate how and where to house Melbourne’s booming population by 2101.
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Share A A A Melbourne Assembly brings together the people, ideas and conversations shaping the future of our city. See all stories . The footprint of metropolitan Melbourne will not be expanded beyond its current, official perimeter after the Carroll government vowed to put an end to decades of urban sprawl.
Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny has promised that future Labor governments will not review the urban growth boundary , resisting what she acknowledges is pressure from property interests to do so.
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