Long suffering residents across Melbourne’s suburbs are pushing back hard against the spate of ugly high-rise apartments sprouting up across the city, which they claim are wrecking liveability:
Grassroots campaigns against multi-storey developments are cropping up across Melbourne where, to the ire of locals, apartment towers are popping up and colonising old residential suburbs.
“There’s a call for medium and high-rise development that’s sympathetic to the surrounds and respects other local people,” said Kate Shaw, an urban geographer at the University of Melbourne.