I have previously labelled now retired RMIT planning professor, Michael Buxton, a housing BANANA (“Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything”) because he spent much of the past decade simultaneously opposing moves to expand Melbourne’s urban growth boundary (UGB), while also opposing high rise development across the CBD and inner areas, as well as voicing concern about declining housing affordability.
What Buxton effectively endorsed is the UK’s system of growth containment combined with zoning against height in most locations, along with the preservation of existing “heritage”. All this is inimical to achieving affordability, as experience in the UK shows.