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Kingston City Rollers league members took part in the Roll for Respect event last week. The roller derby event signalled the start of the “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” campaign, being undertaken statewide. See story page 4 Picture: Supplied
Council agrees to take out the trash Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au THE Alex Fraser Group’s bid to have their permit to operate at their Clarinda recycling facility extended until 2038 has been rejected. Kingston Council agreed earlier this week to reject the proposal after
800 community objections to the plan were lodged. The Alex Fraser Group’s current permit lasts until 2023. Kingston mayor Georgina Oxley said “people in Kingston’s northern suburbs had put up with the waste industry located on their doorstep in the Kingston Green Wedge for far too long.” “Locals have been waiting for dec-
ades to see the end of the waste industry in their neighbourhoods and it’s not fair to ask them to put up with it for another 15 years,” she said. “In approving Planning Scheme Amendment C143 in 2015 the Victorian planning minister explicitly recognised that waste transfer and recycling facilities are not suitable for Green Wedge areas, and outlawed any
new operators while allowing existing operators until the end of their permit to move on. “Council recognises that Alex Fraser can play a strong role in Victoria’s recycling crisis, but Kingston’s Green Wedge is simply the wrong place for an industrial waste facility as the area transitions to our long-held vision for a Chain of Parks.”
A 15 year permit was granted to the Alex Fraser Group in 2008, with an exit date of 2023 targeted. The Alex Fraser Group made a push for a 15 year licence extension in late 2014, but they faced unanimous opposition from the previous Kingston Council. Continued Page 3