Save Techno Park

via Change.org/SaveTechnoPark started by Lara Week

"In May 2023, residents of Techno Park woke to notices from Hobsons Bay City Council directing them to leave their homes immediately or face legal action. Council says the zone is industrial, and that people cannot live there. But the community exists because Council chose to accept residential use for decades. Council’s decision to threaten people with eviction and legal action now, in a time of housing crisis, is heartless, bureaucratic, arbitrary, and wrong. It has caused tremendous harm to people and caused them to fear losing their homes.

People have ...

via Change.org/SaveTechnoPark started by Lara Week

"In May 2023, residents of Techno Park woke to notices from Hobsons Bay City Council directing them to leave their homes immediately or face legal action. Council says the zone is industrial, and that people cannot live there. But the community exists because Council chose to accept residential use for decades. Council’s decision to threaten people with eviction and legal action now, in a time of housing crisis, is heartless, bureaucratic, arbitrary, and wrong. It has caused tremendous harm to people and caused them to fear losing their homes.

People have been living at the Techno Park estate for decades, mostly in small brick flats built to house migrants and refugees in the late 1960s. Residents have built a life, made their homes, started families, and transformed Techno Park into a green and safe place.

Some are owner-occupiers, others are renters. Many are from vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, including children, elderly people, LGBT+ people, migrants, First Nations people and other economically disadvantaged people. Some live with mental illness. Some have lived there for decades, forming a close-knit community that encompasses a real sense of interdependency, support, and family.

We call on Hobsons Bay City Council to stop the mass eviction of residents from Techno Park Drive, Williamstown VIC."

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Techno Park residents need your help after Hobsons Bay Council voted to evict them. Will you email the Mayor of Hobsons Bay Council urging them to reconsider the Council's decision?

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Dear Mayor Tyler

I am one of 22,000 people who have signed the petition Change.org/TechnoPark. I am disgusted to learn the details of Hobsons Bay City Council’s so-called “Operation Pegasus” to evict people from their homes at Techno Park and of the deceptive behaviour exposed in Council documents released to the ABC under Freedom of Information.

The council told the public they had no idea of the scale of residential use at Techno Park when they sent a notice to every home saying residents must leave immediately or face legal action. But the Council’s internal documents reveal that they knew at least forty of the units were residential, that people had been living there for more than 15 years, and that they were entitled to existing use rights to remain.

A change in the planning scheme last week now means that after 15 years of continuous residential use has passed, a council no longer has the power to take that right away. Council is now fully empowered to recognise existing use rights based on the more than 15 years people have lived in Techno Park homes, which Council has already acknowledged.

I have two questions:

1. Were Councillors aware of the details in these documents before the ABC’s exposé?

2. Will you advocate to Council executives to recognise existing use rights for all homes at Techno Park?

People's homes, safety and security are at stake. As our elected representatives, I hope we can count on you to stand up for residents.

I look forward to your response.

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