Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News 31 March 2021

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Picture perfect The winners of the 2020 OptiKa photo competition have been announced. Mark Forbes took out the top prize for best photograph (pictured left). See story page 5. Picture: Mark Forbes

Updated plans for Green Wedge outlined Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au KINGSTON Council has updated its plan for the management of Green Wedge land in the municipality. Council’s Green Wedge management plan was first developed in 2012. Draft changes to the policy will go out for community consultation next week. A statement from Kingston Council outlined changes that have been made

since 2012, and considered in the new draft plan. They include the completion of the Dingley Bypass and advanced construction of Mordialloc Freeway, approval of Amendment C143 which rezoned the northern section of land off Kingston and Heatherton Roads from Special Use Zone Schedule 2 to Green Wedge A Zone, council’s masterplan for the Chain of Parks project, and the proposed Purple Pipe recycled water project. Council also says the draft plan features recognition for the

approval of Hawthorn Football Club’s “significant planned investment into the Green Wedge by providing for an innovative redevelopment of a former landfill site”. Kingston mayor Steve Staikos said council’s draft plan also reinforced its opposition to plans for stabling yards in Heatherton. “Our Green Wedge management plan was first developed in 2012 with a 20year action plan, but a lot has happened since then and it was time to update the

plan,” Cr Staikos said. “This draft plan responds to all the Green Wedge issues that exist in Kingston today, and will see it protected from uses that don’t fit within our long-held vision for our Green Wedge. “Importantly it also reinforces council’s position that the Suburban Rail Loop Authority’s preferred location of the train stabling yards in Heatherton is unacceptable. Council fully intends to defend the Sandbelt Open Space - Chain of Parks Strategy, and

this important core parkland, which has been earmarked for a women’s regional sporting precinct.” Earlier this month suburban rail loop minister Jacinta Allan said that the Heatherton site was the “best location for the suburban rail loop train stabling, minimising compulsory acquisition of homes, businesses and parkland”. (“Stabling plans spark protest”, The News, 17/3/21) Continued on page 5

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