A Liberal Nationals Coalition government will provide a major boost to safety and security in Box Hill district centre and its surrounds.  A Coalition government will provide $250,000 for new and upgraded security cameras that will cover not only the shopping and commercial centre, but also Box Hill Gardens and the main pedestrian routes to [...]

A Liberal Nationals Coalition government will provide $460,000 to construct a footbridge to Box Hill cemetery across the railway line cutting near Middleborough Road, the Member for Box Hill, Robert Clark, announced today. The footbridge will restore pedestrian access to Box Hill Cemetery which was lost in 2006 when the Bracks government lowered the railway [...]

 A Liberal Nationals Coalition government will provide $5 million to fund a 10km bike path to run from Box Hill to Ringwood.   The Box Hill to Ringwood Rail Trail will run for most of its length alongside the Lilydale and Belgrave railway line, and will provide a safe and convenient pathway for local trips, for [...]

Mr Clark (BOX HILL) – I raise with the Minister for Planning the issue of continuing overdevelopment in suburbs across the Box Hill electorate, and I call on the minister to abandon his policy to impose high-rise, high-density development across established suburbs contrary to the wishes of the community. The most recent development causing seemingly [...]

Mr Clark (BOX HILL) – I raise for the Minister for Planning the issue of the proposed 38-storey tower in Station Street, Box Hill. I ask the minister to arrange that the working party he announced in his media release of 1 June be a working party convened by and which will report to the [...]

Mr Clark (BOX HILL) – My matter is for the attention of the Minister of Planning and concerns the issue of planning application call-ins in my electorate. I ask the minister to scrap the government’s current call-in-everything policy so as to allow such applications to be decided through normal planning processes. One example of the [...]

Mr Clark (BOX HILL) – A local resident group in my electorate has provided a graphic demonstration of the farce into which Labor’s planning call-in procedures have descended. The West of Elgar Residents Association (WERA) reports in its April newsletter that residents who attended a hearing by two departmental planning officers were not even permitted to [...]

Mr Clark (BOX HILL) – I raise with the Minister for Roads and Ports the unintended consequences that his introduction last year of a new single-white-line road rule is causing for residents in the Box Hill electorate, and I ask the minister to take action to ensure that these and any other similar unintended and [...]

Mr CLARK (Box Hill) — The decision by the Minister for Planning to call in the planning application for a 38-storey tower at the corner of Station Street and Carrington Road, Box Hill is an appalling and unjustified removal of the community’s rights in relation to a proposal that is pivotal to the future direction [...]

Mr CLARK (Box Hill) — I raise with the Minister for Health the government’s recently announced proposal to undertake a scaled back, hybrid, part new, part refurbishment project at Box Hill Hospital, and I ask the minister to make public the business case, plans, time lines, costings and funding option assessments for the project. Under [...]