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Brickfest returns
Cooper, 7, with some of his LEGO creations he will enter in the annual Wyndham Brickfest on June 29 and 30. (Damjan Janevski) 413457_01
The work of Wyndham’s LEGO aficionados will be on display at the end of the month, with the fourth annual Wyndham Brickfest to be held on June 29 and 30. The competition, which raises funds for local health initiatives, will take place in the library at Hoppers Crossing Secondary College, with a range of prizes across a range of categories on offer. Wyndham Brickfest president Andrew Elsbury explained how the competition works. “People bring along their creations and the collections that they’ve got,” he said. “They might have some vintage LEGO or a certain type of LEGO they’ve been collecting over the years.” Mr Elsbury said the competition was open to people of all ages, with children particularly encouraged to get involved. “We encourage creativity and technical know how of people with varying abilities and model sizes,” he said. “It’s not about how much LEGO you’ve got, but how you use it.” Money raised from competition and event entry, a raffle and the sale of special Wyndham Brickfest Bricks will go towards general health initiatives in Wyndham rather than a specific cause. Entries close on Wednesday, June 26, and can be made at www. wyndhambrickfest.com.au
Wyndham housing target Wyndham will swell by another 120,00 new homes by the middle of the century after the state government announced its proposed 2051 housing target on Sunday. Under the draft plan, two million homes would be built in metropolitan Melbourne and another almost 500,000 spread across the regions. Melton will absorb the most new dwellings of the outer ring areas with 132,000, followed by Wyndham, Casey (104,000), Hume (98,000) and Whittlesea (87,000). Some 139,800 new dwellings would be constructed in the City of Greater Geelong,
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46,900 within the Ballarat City Council area and 37,500 in Greater Bendigo City. The City of Melbourne would host an extra 134,000 homes. Premier Jacinta Allan said Victoria has the largest annual population growth of all Australian states and needs more than two million additional homes by the 2050s. “There are parts of our city that have been locked up for too long,” Ms Allan told reporters at a press conference on Sunday. The draft council housing targets are largely based on access to jobs, transport and services, the government said.
Opposition Leader John Pesutto claimed the idea of issuing the projections couldn’t be taken seriously. “It’s taxing the life out of investment in residential construction,” he said. The final council housing targets will be released by the end of 2024 following local government consultation. Victoria’s metropolitan planning strategy, released in 2017, set a target for 70 per cent of new homes to be built in established suburbs by 2051, with the remaining 30 per cent in greenfield areas. Since 2014, 56 per cent of new homes
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