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Monday 2 March 2015
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Hop to it FRANKSTON Council is asking bushwalkers to record the sound of the Growling Grass Frog in an attempt to monitor frog populations to preserve them. Rangers Sarah Backholer, left, and Allie Coad searched Studio Park in Langwarrin for the elusive Growling Grass Frog. The Growling Grass Frog has not been recorded in local parks or bushland for five years. See story Page 5. Picture: Yanni
Olivers Hill slips and slides Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au ANOTHER landslip at Olivers Hill last week has again focused attention on safety concerns in the prestigious area. Falling debris blocked a footpath on the corner of Liddesdale Ave and Nepean Highway last Monday morning (23 February). Fortunately, no-one was walking past at the time of the latest landslip.
It comes just three years after a major landslip caused a gabion wall near Nepean Hwy to collapse, closing southbound lanes. Homes in the Liddesdale Ave area were evacuated in 2007 when a similar landslip also occurred. Coincidentally, a report about landslip susceptibility around the Cliff Rd area atop Olivers Hill was tabled at this month’s public council meeting. Councillors unanimously voted to write to state Planning Minister Richard Wynne to apply an Erosion
Management Overlay over “areas of identified landslide risk” as a result of the report. An EMO means any new development must be designed to minimise the risk of future landslip. At the council meeting, Frankston resident and registered builder Christi Silke said he had built two homes in the Cliff Rd area and had renovated many others. He said he had read the report “with an open mind” but believed it had little “technical substance”.
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dents, which is situated near Cliff Rd, at this month’s council meeting. “Graham Kennedy had a home in that area and one day in the ‘60s he was on air and – much to the amazement of the people listening – he and Mike Walsh recorded how the driveway that was in front of Graham Kennedy’s house just slipped down the slope,” she said. Ms Richards said the report before council “was excellent”. Continued Page 10
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Mr Silke said there were “separate problems” in the gully area at Olivers Hill but he had never seen any land movements around the Cliff Rd area other than those caused by “poorly man-made structures”. “We’ve got building and planning processes in place and these work really well,” he said. “I’m a bit lost why we’re going to prejudice this whole area with this overlay.” Former mayor Christine Richards spoke on behalf of Warringa Rd resi-