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Landing stoush LEON Pompei is unhappy at council plans to change the lease at Pompei’s Landing in Mordialloc. The son of legendary fisherman and boatbuilder Jack Pompei claims the proposal is an insult to his father’s legacy. See page 7. Picture: Yanni
Green Wedge gets ok By Jo Winterbottom KINGSTON Council has adopted the Kingston Green Wedge Plan as a “framework for action to guide the management of the green wedge�. After lengthy debate, councillors voted to accept most of the plan unchanged, but much of it remains aspirational and will take many years to come to fruition. Kingston mayor Cr John Ronke said the council had “adopted a minimalist approach� in adopting the plan lar gely unchanged.
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“Council now looks forward to working with the state and federal governments to bring about the desired changes that the community has asked for in the Kingston green wedge,� he said. The Kingston Green Wedge roughly extends from Karkarook Park in the north to Braeside Park in the south and includes parkland and open space, the Moorabbin airport, f ve golf courses, several tips and a number of market gardens, schools and other businesses. The council has inherited many complex problems in the green wedge,
among them several landf ll and material recycling sites and quarries which continue to make much of it unsightly, dusty, smelly and degraded. The increasing unviability of small market garden holdings has also proved a headache, with many landholders keen to subdivide their farms for residential or other development, increasing the value of their land substantially. Kingston’s Green Wedge Fund will be used to appoint a project of f cer to begin work on some elements of the green wedge plan, which was drawn
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up by consultants Planisphere. Other immediate initiatives include $110,000 for beautif cation of roads in the zone through tree planting and the development of a business case for the possible acquisition of green wedge land to create a regional sporting precinct, a concept endorsed by Cr Ronke. “I’ve been pushing for years for council to buy as much land as possible to create a sporting precinct,� he said. Increasing public ownership of land within the wedge would be crucial to its protection.
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“The land will always be under threat when it is under private owner ship,� he said. The council will approach the Minister for Planning, Matthew Guy , to approve planning changes which would limit the ability to subdivide land and prevent new waste-related activities in the green wedge. It also includes excising from the wedge of a strip along Springvale Road. A copy of the Kingston GreenWedge Plan can be viewed on the Kingston Council website at www .kingston.vic. gov.au/greenwedge
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