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Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
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400 games of Burrows By Callum Ludwig From the wet, cold and mud in the Yarra Valley to the hallowed turf of the MCG, Ian Burrows has seen it all in his storied career as a boundary umpire. Ian Burrows, who grew up in Launching Place and started out in his umpiring career with the former Yarra Valley Umpires Association, umpired his 400th game at the professional level when Hawthorn defeated Richmond at the MCG on Saturday 15 June. Burrows said he never really thought he’d be an umpire growing up. “I never really had any ambitions until I got going and then realised it was quite fun and that there was a career path, so I started getting reasonably serious about it and working hard on the craft to see if I could get better and better,” he said. Ian Burrows in action in the 2016 AFL Grand Final between the Western Bulldogs and the Sydney Swans.
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Housing in focus By Callum Ludwig
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Yarra Ranges Council made a couple of significant steps in streamlining the planning process, endorsing a housing strategy and ironing out some anomalies in the planning scheme at the Tuesday 11 June council meeting. A slightly amended Housing Strategy and Neighbourhood Character Study was adopted to guide the location, intensity and designs of new residential areas, goals and developments
in the region for the next 15 years. A speaker in opposition and in support were invited to speak to the item, while Streeton Ward Councillor Andrew Fullagar excused himself from the chamber due to a conflict of interest. Duncan van Rooyen from Millar Merrigan Land Development Consultants spoke in opposition and said their concern is that in some instances, the strategy is far too restrictive and will unintentionally reduce the ability to pro-
vide much-needed and appropriate housing in some fully serviced residential areas. “In our view, the mandatory site coverage controls and building setbacks in many cases are counterproductive to good planning and building design principles and don’t take into consideration each site’s unique opportunities and constraints such as the width of the site, the slope of the site, the shape of the site, its orientation, slope across the site, trees both within a site and adjacent to a site.”
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Intrapac Property, the developer behind the Kinley Estate, CEO Maxwell Shifman spoke in support of the strategy and said the critical part of a good strategy is its implementation. “I think it’s overdue that you’ve got a strategy that sort of talks to affordability and diversity because that’s going to be something that we’re really trying to do,” he said. Turn to page 7 for more
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