The Great Latrobe Park is a voluntary community movement that envisages repurposing the Latrobe Valley open cut coal mines into a linked parkland of forests, parks, wetlands, grasslands and gardens that would become a valuable environmental and community asset.
The Great Latrobe Park group point out the many benefits of rehabilitating industrial wastelands and that there are many precedents worldwide.
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| A Google Earth capture of the three open cut mines 230713 |
The group’s website has links to four articles that cover: the geology of the Latrobe Valley, the impacts from mining, stable conditions after mining ceases and the limitations for solving the complex problems of rehabilitation.
The Hazelwood coal mine at Morwell closed in 2017. Yallourn and Loy Yang mines are due to close in 2032 and 2048 respectively.
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Great Latrobe Park website LINK
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Latrobe Park Facebook LINK
I hope they manage to get some sense out of planners. Thanks for letting us know about it all.
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