FEATURES Cost of keeping a building

ANOTHER order from “head office” has been poorly handled by the State Government. Still struggling in the perception stakes over imposing 80-metre tall transmission line towers cutting a swathe through the Loddon Shire, the powers in Spring Street have decided the old Inglewood ambulance station will cop the wrecker’s ball.

No community information about the future of a building owned by the people of Victoria and with potential uses for the local community. It’s unsafe, says the Health Department, citing only on Monday a 2016 report of asbestos.

If the cost is reasonable to remove asbestos, then it makes no sense to demolish buildings at a time when construction workers are on overtime and

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Loddon Shire satisfaction survey shows dip in approval, particularly in southern wards

Harold Shipston wrote: It’s a bit more than a ‘dip’.. try the words ‘catastrophic dive’. The guys and gals that ride the mowers, work the shovels, bake in the sun and freeze in the cold to get things done, do their best. They can only work with what they are given and told to do. The ones up the top of the heap would not have a clue what needs doing or how it should be done. If you want to see satisfaction from the southern wards improve send them on a free trip to the Arctic (extended stay?) and let the real workers hold the reins for a while.

Nick Angelo wrote: I wonder why? If you don’t live in one of the materials in short supply (and highly priced), when the very Government itself is talking about a housing crisis and the Commonwealth Games cancelled because Spring Street no longer has enough money. The knock-it-down mentallity might just have to go on hold while the state’s finances recover. And that means repurposing buildings to solve just a few challenges. exercise equipment at the park, climate change reports and the like but not enough money to grade a bloody road! sneeze in your sleep. select towns nothing gets done. We are still waiting for a gutter to be put in four-plus years later.

We’ve been doing that in the country for decades. Not everything has to be, or can be, palatial and new all the time. With all the cost blow outs, is it cheaper to save the old ambulance station?

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Ash Isaac wrote: Do you blame us. Their idea of fixing a road is putting a rough surface sign up and just leave it there for months.

Glynn Jarrett wrote: Why am I not surprised.

Chris Young wrote: Plenty of money to waste on rainbow flags,

Bruce McCahon wrote: For decades responsibility have been down shifted to local councils with absolutely no corresponding increase in revenue. Local councils are on a hiding to nothing. Having moved from Loddon to a neighbouring council I can vouch that Loddon is definitely a step ahead. Get used to the destitute state of Dankakistan.

Local shooter Glenn Cole criticises move by one central Victorian council to ban kangaroo harvest Karren Chuter wrote: They have right to live and are our symbol. Luke Holt wrote: Shoot them all.

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