Local Victorian council calling for stronger oversight of housing ads

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A council in Melbourne's booming outer west is calling for stronger oversight around how developers advertise new housing estates to homeowners. It follows years of complaints from residents across Melbourne's outer suburbs about broken promises of improved infrastructure.

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00:00I'm in Mount Atkinson in Melbourne's booming Outer West.

00:06In fact, this is the fastest growing region in all of Australia.

00:10It's a lovely community, the people we've spoken to are very close with their neighbours,

00:14but one complaint that they've got is that they say they move in on promises of

00:18schools coming soon, shops, infrastructure, and the reality is something quite different.

00:23You're born into a vision, and the vision is just so far from reality.

00:28The reality is like we are living in an island with no facility, no community engagement,

00:37and no access to transport, shops, medical facility, anything goes wrong, we are stuffed.

00:45I pay a premium price for the block of land with all these flashy promises,

00:50so I expect those things to be delivered.

00:55The local council has decided to write to the Victorian Government.

00:57They want tougher regulations on the way developers and real estate agents

01:02can market these kinds of areas.

01:04It's a very big issue. We are the fastest growing city in Australia.

01:07We have got development everywhere.

01:10So for us, we're constantly hearing from residents about it.

01:14The industry body representing developers told the ABC tougher regulations

01:18would just push up house prices.

01:20They're calling on the Victorian Government to invest more in infrastructure

01:24in growing communities.

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