About Us – Mt Eliza Woodland Residents Association

Mount Eliza Woodland

Mt Eliza Woodland Residents Association (MEWRA) is a not-for-profit organisation set up to support the residents of Mt Eliza Woodland to appreciate and protect their wonderful bushland environment.

Mt Eliza Woodland is renowned for its relatively large house blocks set in natural, bushland surroundings.

Part of our work is to resist inappropriate development in Mt Eliza Woodland. Although Woodland is a residential area, there are continual pressures (from outside) to introduce other uses. MEWRA recognises that it is not inherently inappropriate for there to be other uses of land in Woodland, some proposals are inappropriate in their nature and/or the adverse affects they will have on the area and its residents.

Woodland already includes a government primary school and a Catholic primary school, as well as a group of shops.

The Association (MEWRA)

MEWRA is registered as a not-for-profit association (A0046615R) with the Victorian government. It holds an annual general meeting of members, at which a committee is elected. The committee governs the day-to-day business of MEWRA, meeting around nine times each year.

MEWRA also organises public events, such as family picnics in the Mount Eliza Regional Park. Members of the committee also attend community markets in the area to promote the Association.

MEWRA is essentially a community organisation with its members electing a committee every year to run the Association. All residents of Woodland can apply for membership and be part of a vibrant organisation. We invite you to have a look at our Membership page.

Members of the MEWRA committee and MEWRA members will occasionally have a table at the monthly Mount Eliza Community Market, held on the 4^th Sunday of the month. You will find us somewhere between the fruit & vegetable shop and the drycleaners.

The purposes of the Association are –

To maintain official recognition of the environmental significance of the Mount Eliza Woodland area bordered by Canadian Bay Road, the Moorooduc Highway, Humphries Road and the Nepean Highway, Mount Eliza.
To preserve and enhance Mount Eliza Woodland and its natural treed landscape for everyone to enjoy now and into the future.
To ensure that land use controls protect and preserve the area.
To preserve and regenerate Mount Eliza Woodland’s natural habitat.
To generate community awareness of the uniqueness of Mount Eliza Woodland.
To coordinate activities with government and other groups where appropriate.
To maintain a strong and viable organisation to achieve the above.

Write to us: PO Box 909, Mount Eliza, Vic 3930 (Australia)

[this page was last updated at 12:25 pm on 22 July 2023]