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The ongoing closure of traffic lights and a pedestrian crossing near Queen Victoria Market (QVM) has sparked safety and accessibility concerns among market traders and shoppers. University High School is set to open a temporary campus in the CBD to address growing enrolment and capacity challenges faced by inner-city schools.
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Nov 6, 2024 · The challenges faced retrofitting vacant offices. November 6th, 2024 - Jon Fleetwood. With high office vacancy rates and Melbourne’s aged population set to nearly double by 2036, adaptive re-use of vacant offices into retirement living could help Melbourne be more supportive of its older residents.
Five key questions for the CBD in 2023
Nov 23, 2022 · Here’s the five key questions facing the CBD in the next 12 months. 1. Will the safe injecting room finally open? One of the most prominent CBD topics in recent years, the state government originally said it would have an answer to this question by the end of 2020.
More residents could be key to CBD’s future: Premier
Mar 23, 2022 · Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said Melbourne CBD’s future vibrancy could depend on increased resident numbers and converting office space into dwellings, as the central city grapples with “permanent” changes.
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Nov 7, 2024 · Melbourne lab trials virtual reality tech in mental health treatment. November 7th, 2024 - CBD News. A world-first laboratory in Melbourne is on the brink of delivering a new treatment option for mental health. This treatment is like something out of Ready Player One, utilising virtual reality technology.
The one thing uniting both sides of CBD safe injecting room debate
Mar 22, 2023 · The one thing uniting both sides of CBD safe injecting room debate. While the potential for a safe injecting room in the CBD is an emotive and often vexed debate, both sides are in fierce agreement on one point …. It was a mere footnote to a press release that spoke volumes of the Victorian Government’s handling of the CBD injecting room ...
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Sep 25, 2024 · August 21st, 2024 - Susan Saunders. Stress, anxiety, depression, unwillingness to interact socially and lack of physical activity. These symptoms may indicate that your mental health needs some tender, loving care. Read More.
City of Melbourne responds to Lay report | CBD News
Jun 18, 2024 · Council responds to Lay report. City of Melbourne councillors have unanimously supported the Victorian Government’s Statewide Action Plan to reduce drug harm following the long-awaited release of a report into a proposed CBD safe injecting room. The Proposed Medically Supervised Injecting Service trial consultation: City of Melbourne report ...
Cohealth backs government’s search for new injecting room
Jun 24, 2021 · The government was widely tipped to announce the former Yooralla building at 244-248 Flinders St as the new preferred site, after it confirmed in June it had bought the building. Cohealth chief executive Nicole Bartholomeusz said there was simply a need to prevent overdoses in the CBD, irrespective of the location selected.
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Jul 24, 2021 · By Sue Saunders - Vice President. How do people keep healthy and fit when they reside in Melbourne’s CBD or near surrounds? You might think that people who live in the suburbs or out in the country with its wide-open spaces and fresh air would surely be a fitter, healthier population than people living in the small spaces of high-rise apartments.