24/07/2026
𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐘 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐁𝐎𝐗 𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐋 - 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍
Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny has once again overridden local voices, clearing the way for high-rise development across 95 per cent of the seven-hectare Box Hill Brickworks site.
Buildings of up to 10 storeys can line the edges, with even taller towers possible in the centre, while just five per cent is reserved as open space. This is not an isolated industrial wasteland. It sits in the middle of established housing, where residents already need more breathing room, trees and usable parkland - not a wall of apartments.
Whitehorse Council, residents and local MPs opposed the plan, yet the Minister has pushed ahead and retained herself as the decision-maker for approvals.
Once this parcel is covered in concrete, it is gone forever. Kilkenny has chosen density over liveability, bureaucracy over community, and development targets over common sense.
Box Hill deserved a neighbourhood park - not a ministerial steamroller and a skyline of towers.