Engineer who helped build Melbourne’s public housing towers condemns plan to demolish ‘icons’ | Victoria

In the 1960s, an engineer, who helped Melbourne’s mass housing towers to be built, condemned his plan to destroy them by saying that the government of Victoria was expensive, unnecessary and environmentally irresponsible.

Gerry Noonan, who works in most of the 44 towers of the city, said about the redevelopment of the Victorian Parliamentary investigation, but instead of renewal and raised – he showed the financial cost and carbon effect of demolition and reconstruction.

In his investigation on Wednesday, he said, “It would be a sinner to destroy these buildings. They are icons.”

In accordance with the plan of the state government announced by the leading Daniel Andrews in September 2023, all of the 44 towers will be demolished and rede were redealed starting from the three occupied tower in Flemington and North Melbourne.

Although there will be a 10% increasing social housing on the sites, only the towers in Carlton will return as a mass housing thanks to the federal financing.

The rest will be managed by housing providers who have previously warned that the investigation may lead to higher rents and weaker tenant protections.

Families, Justice and Housing and Houses Victoria, Victoria, said that the investigation on Wednesday should be demolished because they are outdated, insecure and inadequate energy.

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Peta McCammon, the secretary of the ministry, said that many have failed in significant standards such as accessibility, sustainability, ventilation, noise and special open space. He said they would be insecure in case of fire or seismic events.

Although some problems could be resolved, the cost will “overcome the benefit too much” and residents should still be replaced.

The presentation of the section said that the pipe walls in some larger towers were finely eroded from 2 mm to 0.2 mm and that 52 temporary patch was applied in the last three months.

With Martin McCurry, Homes Victoria, is estimated to be at risk because of sewage masses, and said that the sewage of 20 km should be “replaced”.

Simon Newport from Homes Victoria said that the towers were only designed to run for about 50 years. He confirmed that the status reports and cost-rate analyzes were completed, but the government could not provide them to the committee because it claimed the privilege of execution on documents.

However, Noonan said the investigation was small and corrected.

“I live in a house built 155 years ago, like many people in Melbourne, probably even longer than that. You get strange problems, but that’s not very important, it’s definitely not to overthrow the whole building,” he said.

Noonan rejected the claim that modern opportunities such as air conditioning are necessary in all units.

“In Melbourne, you take 10 hot days a year for God’s sake. You don’t need air conditioning,” he said.

Noonan also drew attention to a report of the Architecture Company, which issued an offer to protect and raise the Flemington land and to build five new middle buildings in existing parking lots, and issued an offer to save the government 364 million dollars.

Architect Richard Cameron, who said that the strengthening of the investigation strengthening could be done on a quarter of the cost of redevelopment of the government and expand the life of buildings for 50 years.

Jackson Payne, a part of the demo coalition Stop, questioned the reason for redevelopment.

“Where is the evidence? I cannot understand that the solution to today’s housing crisis is to destroy tomorrow’s security network,” he said.

Payne said that the community houses were carried out by “private organizations” that could decide on the “types of people who deserve the housing ve and decide“ higher rents ”and“ dangerous service fees ”.

However, Sarah Toohey from the Community Housing Industry Association rejected this and said the investigation: “There is no difference. [between] Public and community houses have the same rights in accordance with the laws. “

Katelyn Butterss, General Manager of Victoria Public Tenants Association, warned that it has not opposed the redevelopment of the investigation, but the buildings do not have a public hand.