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KEW COTTAGES COALITION
ABOUT
US
Kew Cottages Coalition Reg # A0044698H
Kew
Cottages
Coalition Contacts:
Correspondence: PO Box 2317, KEW, Victoria,
3101, Australia
Telephone:
0418 356 464
International: +61 418 356 464
E-mail:
Feedback
The Kew Cottages Coalition (KCC) is
a non-profit community based
organisation,
formed in 2003, in order to oppose the Victorian Government’s
announced decision to sell the 27 hectares of Kew Cottages Crown Land
adjacent
to the Yarra Bend Park, and to bulldoze this historic site in favour of
multi-unit private residential development.
The Victorian Government justifies
its Kew Cottages
‘redevelopment’
policy in part on its commitment that:
"All funds from the redevelopment
will be spent on providing improved
facilities and services for people moving from Kew and any additional
funds
will go to other disability services."
However, despite the rhetoric, 7
years after the Bracks Government's promise. there still do not appear
to be any"additional" funds for the disabled.
Instead of a profit the end of
2008,
according to The Age,
We believe that
the future management of the KRS site still represents a unique
opportunity to provide a new model of care for Victorians with
intellectual disability, as well as integrating the environmental and
recreational values of the site.
The contiguous
physical location of the KRS site with the Yarra Bend National Park and
the longstanding and welcomed interaction by KRS residents with the
local Kew community represent important elements to the likely success
of a unique multi-purpose re-birth of the site.
In June 2008 we presented our Proposal
to the Victorian
Parliamentary Inquiry into the Development of Public Land in Victoria.
We proposed that Development of
the KRS site as a housing estate be halted at Stage 1 and the remainder
of the site be developed as an integrated Disability Support and
Recreational area incorporating the following three key components:
KCC CHARTER
1. Keep the Kew Residential
Services
(Kew Cottages) site in public ownership. There should be no sale of Kew
Cottages site for housing development.
2. Develop an Intellectual
Disability Centre
of Excellence (IDCE). This should include a variety of research and
care
initiatives including: housing, respite care and support services.
3. Land on the Kew Cottages site that is
not directly
required for the IDCE should be used to develop joint sporting and
recreational
facilities for use by the IDCE and all citizens of Boroondara.
4. All IDCE and
sporting/recreational
development of the Kew Cottages site should:
a) Maintain and improve the
site’s important
heritage value, and environmental features;
b) Further enhance the integration of
Kew Cottages
residents into the Kew and Boroondara community;
c) Be respectful of the site’s important
Aboriginal
significance;
d) Be consistent with, and enhance, the
environmental
integrity of the Yarra Bend National Park.
KCPA Inc. Contacts:
ACN No. A13298T
Kew Cottages Parents Association
Correspondence: Locked
Bag
15, KEW, Victoria, 3101, Australia
Telephone:
(03) 9854 1388
International:
+613 9854 1388
Fax
:
(03) 9854 1388
E-mail:
kewcott@alphalink.com.au
CIPAID Inc. Contacts:
Incorporating the Orphan's Fund for
Intellectually
Disabled persons (VIC) Inc.
ACN No. A00 19798R
Concerned Individuals and Parents Action on
Intellectual
Disability
Correspondence: Locked
Bag
15, KEW, Victoria, 3101, Australia
Telephone:
(03) 9854 1497
International:
+613 9854 1497
Fax
:
(03) 9854 1466
E-mail: Feedback (Please
mark
Attn: CIPAID in the Subject line)
CIPAID stands for Service Diversity with Client
and
Parent Choice; living in the community may be successful in diverse
housing
models, including clusters.
Disability Network Inc. Contacts:
ACN No. A0036316P
For Action on Accommodation, Respite and Unmet
needs
Correspondence: PO Box
31,
Chadstone Centre, Victoria, 3148, Australia
Telephone:
(03) 9509 7803/ 9569 2240
International:
+613 9509 7803/ 9569 2240
E-mail:
Feedback (Please
mark
Attn: Disability Network in the Subject line)
The Disability Network Inc. (formerly the One Voice Disability
Network)
is an organisation independent of government funding formed to lobby
Federal
and State politicians and other decision makers about accdommodation,
respite
and unmet needs in all areas of disability.
The Disability Network aims to promote diversity and choice in
services
and to promote parents and families being included in decisions
regarding
services for loved ones. The Network hopes to work collaboratively with
other disability-related organisations to ensure that what people have
to say is heard and heeded by decision makers.
The Network also aims to inform public understanding and debate
about
issues relating to disability.
Privacy:
we will comply with Privacy legislation in the State of Victoria in
handling
all personal
information . Unless you advise us otherwise, you agree that we
may
make the information you
provide available for the above purposes to the independent
disability
groups CIPAID (Concerned
Individuals and Parents Action on Intellectual Disbility), the
Disability
Network., and the Kew
Cottages Parents Association. Personal information will not be used for
any other purposes [more..]
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information
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However, Kew Cottages Coalition accepts no responsibility for any loss
occasioned to any person
acting or refraining from action as a result of the material presented
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