Box Hill
Council slams being shut out by state over plan for $1.6b tower project
A mayor in Melbourne’s east says her council only learnt that the planning minister had approved a huge development project when staff saw a news report.
- by Sophie Aubrey
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Development
High-rises up to 50 storeys get green light for Melbourne suburb
Seven new Suburban Rail Loop towers will add 1700 homes, but not without reigniting debate about how high is too high.
- by Kieran Rooney and Broede Carmody
The two suburbs due to lose 15 MCGs of open space to Victoria’s Big Build
A Melbourne mayor has warned the Victorian government, “you can’t just take, you have to give something back”, as Big Build projects gobble up suburban parklands.
- by Sophie Aubrey
City life
City life
Burwood was ‘the bush’. Now it’s a university hub with towers to come
It was once conservative, culturally homogenous and rough in parts. These days it’s young, ethnically diverse and dominated by a university.
- by Madeleine Heffernan
Opinion
Life in the ’burbs
My suburb has a language barrier – and it makes people act differently
Owning a piece of sky instead of land? Raising a family in an apartment? All these things are normal in Asia, and yet so strange to many Australians.
- by Meg Davies
The chefs’ guide to Melbourne’s Chinatowns, and what to eat when you’re there
Ahead of Lunar New Year, five top chefs share where they head for “textbook Cantonese cooking”, “a warm Cambodian hug”, or crispy suckling pig.
- by Daniela Frangos
Swimmers alarmed at push to outsource two popular Whitehorse pools
A growing number of Melbourne’s public pools are now being privately managed, and those in Nunawading and Box Hill are set to join the list as cost pressures mount.
- by Rachael Dexter
Emma’s share house fears being priced out of their suburb – and out of Melbourne
Asking rents rose in nearly every Melbourne suburb last year, most by double digits. Can it continue?
- by Jim Malo
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Cycling
Box Hill ‘ghost platform’ touted as underground cycling highway
A bicycle highway through Melbourne’s eastern suburbs via an underground “ghost platform” at Box Hill station would ease road congestion and public transport crowding.
- by Patrick Hatch
Rick can’t find a rental near work, so he’s commuting six hours a day
He has been rejected from about 50 rental properties and is considering a desperate tactic to boost his chances.
- by Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
Review
Golden Lily
We lift the lid on a hidden yum cha treasure in Box Hill (and its golden ‘quicksand’ buns)
Dani Valent discovers a bustling yum cha palace in a hotel. Here’s what to order from the 60-item menu.
- by Dani Valent
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