Western Victoria Region
Mr MEDDICK (Western Victoria) (12:52): (1828) My constituency question is for the Minister for Planning. Residents of the Bellarine Peninsula in my electorate have engaged in a fight to preserve and protect their surrounding environs from developers, with all the same processes that the residents of the Surf Coast have recently gone through with Spring Creek Valley—the same consultations, the same distinctive area landscape hearings and submissions—in a fight to protect Ramsar-listed wetlands and other wetlands that are currently under Ramsar consideration. The communities of Barwon Heads, Ocean Grove, Point Lonsdale, Queenscliff and St Leonards are united in their desire to stop inappropriate development, fix firm town boundaries and prevent run-off into the wetlands. They are also located or partially located adjacent to state significant landscapes and living Wadawurrung country cultural heritage sites. Will the minister hear their concerns and hand down a decision to protect the Bellarine from developers?