Clay Lucas

Clay Lucas

Clay Lucas is city editor for The Age. Clay has worked at The Age since 2005, covering state politics, urban affairs, transport, local government and workplace relations for The Age and Sunday Age.

The Eastern Golf Club in Doncaster is being redeveloped for housing.

Golf clubs under pressure as developers eye land

Melbourne's poorer golf clubs are merging, relocating or closing, while the city's richest sandbelt courses thrive.

33-35 Huntingtower Road, Armadale, sold for $10.8 million last October and will now be demolished.

Wreckers move in on 100-year-old $10.8m Armadale home

Company part-owned by wealthy arts donors the Besen family will demolish century-old Armadale mansion.

The Oxford Scholar will close next week.

Metro tunnel works blamed as city pub shuts its doors

A once-thriving Swanston Street pub will shut after trade collapsed immediately once construction began on Melbourne’s new metro rail tunnel.

Brooklyn resident Gulen Sarantis, with her two-year-old Georgia, has concerns over the 7000 extra trucks that will hit ...

West Gate Tunnel will bring 7000 more trucks to Brooklyn

Truck bans in Yarraville to come in when the West Gate Tunnel opens in 2022 will see Brooklyn’s main arterial flooded with 7000 trucks.

Southbank resident John Gigacz says the conflict between pedestrians and cyclists has intensified.

Walk on the wild side: Pedestrians' top hazards revealed

A study has identified Southbank Promenade as among the 10 most hazardous spots for pedestrians.

Adam Fennessy, secretary of Victoria's Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.

The big brain drain - some of Victoria's brightest leaving the service

Next week, the state's top planner Adam Fennessy is taking his two decades' experience and heading to the private sector.

'Social mix' approach to public housing failing: research

Disadvantage is being concentrated as developers and government win out, research finds.

Every tonne of garbage buried in landfill is taxed $63 by the Victorian government.

A-General to probe unspent landfill tax millions

Half a billion dollars in taxes levied by councils and rubbish dumps and paid to the Victorian government to cut waste buried in landfills has not been spent – and a major investigation is seeking to find out why.

The crane in Elwood that is overhanging a neighbouring home.

Hanging judge rules crane must come down

A developer has been given seven days to pull down a crane swinging over an Elwood family's home, after a Supreme Court judge ruled it was trespassing on their property.

Elwood family seeks injunction to remove overhanging crane

Elwood family want developer to take down five-level tower crane swinging over their yard.

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