UTAS wants to take over several city blocks. Their first move is to remove 20 car parks from Melville Street, stop traffic in one direction and, in turn, kill the businesses that need passing trade and their customers to be able to access them, and remove an access route for ambulance and fire services!

Several city blocks will be taken from the hands of the broader community and small businesses that are fighting hard to survive. If UTAS and the HCC get their way, parking and streets will be switched to plywood furniture and pot plants. Streets are for movement and access, not photoshoot sets for UTAS marketing materials.

The community is the real owners of our street - not UTAS, not the Hobart City Council.

By granting permission for this application to be made, the HCC are demonstrating that their consultation on their Central Hobart Precincts Plan discussion paper is token only. If it was genuine, why would the HCC grant UTAS permission to apply to take over a public street before consultation on the initial concept of Melville Street turning into a 'nature corridor' and 'pedestrian priority' has even closed? 

Surely the community should get a say in the concept before we have applications being assessed to start blocking Melville Street and replacing critical parking and emergency service traffic routes with more plywood and fake grass.....

The HCC are clearly in each other's pockets in an unhealthy way, where UTAS is calling the shots. 

UTAS-HCC collusion is unhealthy and a big risk for Hobart. Our city's businesses and community members who need to travel by car are at real risk of being steamrolled. 

The undersigned strongly object to UTAS' takeover of Melville Street, including application PLN-21-609.

Find out more here - https://www.louiseelliot.org/post/savemelville

Have your say on planning application PLN21-609 - https://www.hobartcity.com.au/Development/Representations

Let the Council know what you think - electedmembers@hobartcity.com.au

 

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