The news comes via the SLAM (Save Live Australia’s Music) Facebook page, who have been lobbying for the move since their inception in 2010.
“Today is a very important day for Live Music in Victoria,” reads the statement on their Facebook. “Today the Agent of Change principle will be implemented. Once gazetted into Planning Policy, our loved venues and performance spaces will be protected from encroaching residential development. It’s been a long and hard road to get here, activist’s like Dr Kate Shaw and Jon Perring from Fair Go 4 Live Music have been working on this policy and butting head with governments for 11 years. Since the day we marched on parliament in 2010 when SLAM was formed, one of our biggest goals was to see this principle through.”
