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The 120 Collins Street Ground Plane refurbishment project.

This tiny CBD garden provides an oasis for the office-weary

The 310m² courtyard aims to “offer refuge” to those in the busy city centre.

  • Gemma Grant

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Phillip Island residents Maxine Sando and Graeme Davy.

‘Lying in front of bulldozers’: Phillip Island residents asked to pony up tens of thousands for road works

Residents of this coastal community voted to keep their dirt roads. Now the council has a new plan to impose levies for their road and drainage upgrades.

  • Benjamin Preiss
Curt Thompson, who has long fought plans build homes on the former Talbot quarry, stands at the southern boundary of the site.

Plan to move 2500 residents onto former dump and quarry full of unstable ‘slime’

Next to a famed golf course, this parcel of land is filled with pits of waste piles and enormous “slimes” that plunge up to 20 metres beneath the surface.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Jennifer Hunt, chief executive of the Pet Medical Crisis Fund, Thea Agius, shelter manager, Pam Weaver, president of Save-a-Dog scheme and resident Jenny Stern.

Tears, cheers and smears: Emotional council vote over animal shelter

The new contract for the operator of a Glen Iris pound saw more than 3000 people sign a petition, a packed council meeting and a heated dispute over an animal euthanasia policy.

  • Lachlan Abbott
A tree-lined street in Rowville.

Majestic or menace? The suburb where scores of gumtrees face the chop

A council in Melbourne’s east is debating removing more than 150 towering native trees lining suburban streets, following calls from some people who want them gone.

  • Adam Carey
Long-time Kensington resident Simon Harvey stands near some of the Macaulay Road build-to-rent projects.

Build-to-rent ‘loophole’ robs communities of millions for new parks

Councils say the controversial loophole allows build-to-rent developers to escape a green space levy.

  • Sophie Aubrey
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Thomas Street is also colloquially described as ‘Afghan Bazaar’ or the ‘Afghan Precinc’.

Home Affairs sent in over Dandenong bazaar furore

A vexed issue over the name of a popular shopping strip returns to the council chamber on Monday night.

  • Rachael Dexter
Melton Mayor Steve Abboushi with illegally dumped waste.

Rubbish city: These Melbourne suburbs are done with being dumping grounds

Councils are calling for state-led reform to crack down on a growing scourge of illegal dumping that disproportionately affects outer suburbs.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Residents have raised concerns about anti-social behaviour connected to homeless encampments in St Kilda.

No fines for the homeless, but Port Phillip Council mulls camp crackdown

The City of Port Phillip will investigate changes to local laws that would give council powers to disband encampment hotspots.

  • Tom Cowie
New parking restrictions on Willoby avenue in Glen Iris outside Caulfield Grammar school have not fixed the problem of congestion.

School parking stoush at Caulfield Grammar reignites as new rules floated

Efforts to ease pick-up and drop-off traffic around the Glen Iris private school appear to have failed, with parents and locals at loggerheads again.

  • Alex Crowe

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