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Don Valley HFRWG members Andrew Martin, Cassandra Stanley and Rick Hulihan are crying foul over what they say is a 'pretend' consultation. 173059
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Consultation fail By Kath Gannaway Community members of the Haining Farm Redevelopment Working Group (HFRWG) are urging Don Valley residents to back them in calling on Environment Minister Lily DâAmbrosio to intervene on the future of Haining Farm.
They claim the online Community Engagement Report designed to gauge support for four different proposals was skewed in a last-minute email blitz by Zoos Victoria and other environment groups encouraging members to vote for wildlife habitat. The future use of the government-
owned farm which is currently run as a dairy farm has been the subject of a seven-month consultation run by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning following a plan to revegetate the 59-hectare property as part of the Yellingbo Conservation Area.
The HRFWG also included representatives of the Yellingbo Co-ordinating Committee, the CFA, Parks Victoria with a Zoos Victoria representative as an adviser and Cr Jim Child as a local community member. In a joint letter dated 4 September, DELWP and Parks Victoria advised
the Haining Working Group that a decision had been made which would see 42 hectares revegetated to provide habitat for two of Victoriaâs threatened species, the helmeted honeyeater and the lowland Leadbeaterâs possum. Continued on page 3
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