Fitzroy music venue wins noise fight but issues legal loophole warning
. “Change Agent” principle In 2014, it was introduced by the State Government to Planning Law. It places a developer in a way that includes appropriate noise reduction measures when a building is recommended within 50 meters of a building.
Night cat in 2024. Credit: Richard Clifford
Stanford said that lawyers began to use a gap that includes the challenge to the compatibility of a place to plan the planning permit of a place, including a gap that includes responsibility back to the music space.
” [rules are] Not to protect us as before, ”he said. If the laws were effective in protecting spaces, we wouldn’t have to do so. The developer would have to pay for sound insulation.
“We need our state politicians to bother these laws… I hope, we can move quickly to close the gaps and protect the rest of the city places.”
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Stephen Jolly, Mayor of the Yarra Municipal Assembly, welcomed the VCAT decision and won for Melbourne’s live music scene.
“It is incredible. Really good news,” he said. “He shouldn’t have come to this, and I hope this sends a clearer message about people who plan to build a high -storey building in order not to complain about the noise.”
Mayor, the rules that protect the live music venues are not in line with the standards, he said. The Council said it aims to provide a live music zone to the region, which will enter the planning plan.
“This will provide long -term security to all people working in the sector and the sector, Jol Jolly said.
Founded by Stanford in April, a mass funding driver collected more than $ 73,000 for the night cat, revenues are moving towards measures such as advanced sound insulation and better sound monitoring equipment.
Donation gathering allowed the night cat to assign an independent report on the noise levels, which found that it was compatible with the permission of the place. Stanford said that this research will be given to the Yarra Municipal Assembly.
“A win for the place,” he said. “We now have an acoustic report that proves that we are 100 percent compatible with our planning permission. And that helps us more.
“There were donations that came to the place 30 years ago and wanted to make sure that it would still be there for the next generation.
“There is a wide variety of support… I moved very deeply to get this support level.”
