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Advocacy Roadmap
Yarra City Council adopted an Advocacy Roadmap in November 2025, and in April 2026 chose to highlight some of the items under the brand ‘Yarra Decides’, with the aim of obtaining spending promises from the state government in the lead up to the November 2026 state election. The Advocacy Roadmap is a flawed document because…
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Equality
Streets Alive Yarra’s values are freedom, equality, social justice, responsibility, and a world of beauty. Here we look at how the value of equality should be applied to on-street parking. Equality of access In Australia, every person has equal rights to access most public amenities. Or rather, they should have, but don’t, and it’s our…
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Housing targets
The state government has asked the City of Yarra to build 44,000 new homes by 2050. Where will they go? In January 2026 the state government published Planning Practice Note 90: Planning for Housing. It asks councils to use the new Housing Capacity Assessment Platform (HCAP) to estimate housing capacity. If the capacity isn’t enough,…
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Report card 2025
A new council was elected in October 2024. Now that a year has passed, let’s look back on who was elected, what scores we had given them, and how they performed for freedom, equality, social justice, responsibility, and a world of beauty, i.e. building a more beautiful, liveable, and accessible city by investing in walking,…
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Transport for London shows the way
Transport for London have published their 2030 vision for a better, safer street network: In Central London, which in Melbourne would include the City of Yarra, the graphic highlights increased public and active transport, and decreased car use (because they don’t have enough space on their streets for everyone to drive at the same time):…
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New car parking requirements
On 18 December 2025 the state government revised the car parking requirements within council planning schemes across Victoria, to support Action 5 of Plan for Victoria, i.e. to match car and bike parking requirements and bike facilities with demand. For Yarra, notable changes include: Clause 52.06 in Yarra’s Planning Scheme Parking requirements are defined in…
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Flood mapping
Flood mapping was a political issue at the 2024 Council Election, with multiple candidates spreading misinformation. Here’s how we highlighted and summarised the issue before the election: Misinformation about flood mapping (from our Election 2024 page) Flood mapping is an important issue for Streets Alive Yarra because flooding on our streets impacts on how people…
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Victoria’s Climate Change Strategy 2026-30
Victoria has updated its Climate Change Strategy and associated transport pledge: The strategy points out that 26% of Victoria’s emissions are from transport, and most of that is from cars: The strategy states that we’ll use the avoid-shift-improve method to reduce transport emissions, i.e.: Again, we recommend that the best way to achieve these aims,…
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Submission to 11 November 2025 Council Meeting
Streets Alive Yarra offers the following feedback, regarding some of the items on the agenda. 7.1 Adoption of Linear Park Masterplan Streets Alive Yarra is disappointed that two items were not progressed within the Linear Part Masterplan, namely: With this context, we support Officer recommendations to pursue them at a later stage: 7.3 Community Engagement…
