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IT’S never too late for love. And the proof is in the eyes of a Rosebud couple who are planning to tie the knot at Sorrento this month. Shirley Ulmer and Michael Metherell – both well into their 80s – will say “I do” at the Sorrento Historic Gardens rotunda on Saturday 23 June. The path to love for this active couple came through the U3A Southern Peninsula’s Happy Wanderers group. “We are in the U3A walking group and I’m a fast walker and didn’t usually see Mike,” Ms Ulmer said. “On the day we met, Mike was leading the group and it’s the custom for the leader to be out front. I found myself walking alongside him. It just happened. “We struck up a conversation and afterwards had a coffee at Red Hill South near the school. “He asked me to the movies and we got to know each other and began a friendship. We discovered we had lots in common.” In July 2016, when Ms Ulmer and friends went to Spain to walk the 800 kilometre Camino de Santiago trail over 42 days she realised she missed Michael – and he missed her. On her return they decided to do their walking together from then on. Last year they walked 300km across England from the Irish Sea to the North Sea in 17 days. “We spent five weeks together overall and really enjoyed each other’s company – although we got lost a few times,” she said. This year they plan to walk the Cornish coast. Mr Metherell, a former architect who moved to Rosebud 10 years ago, said the group exercise was “just what I needed; it’s nice being fit”. And the upcoming wedding for the couple who have been married before?: “This is different and exciting,” Ms Ulmer said. Stephen Taylor

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OPPOSITION by the Greens to a parliamentary amendment that would have given the Mornington Peninsula its own planning statement has been described as “so lacking in common sense as to defy belief”. Peninsula Speaks co-founder Christine Haydon was furious after the Greens backed the Labor state government in opposing a Coalition planning and environment amendment which they believe would have given teeth to attempts to overturn an already implemented 11-metre, three-storey height limits. The contentious issue was the subject of several township meetings organised by Mornington Peninsula Shire over the past 12 months held to alert the community to the potential heights of “inappropriate development” in residential areas. Villages and townships said to be under threat include Capel Sound, Rosebud, Dromana, Mt Martha, Mornington, Baxter, Somerville, Tyabb, Hastings and Bittern. The shire wants the government to reinstate the local planning statement which it believes had protected the “unique” character of the peninsula from inappropriate development since the 1970s.

Last week’s amendment defeat may have put paid to that. “It was voted down crushing any hope we had of a Localised Planning Statement,” Ms Haydon said. “As the community are aware we all have been working together to prevent three storeys and other changes to the planning laws that were announced in April last year and, to this end, we presented a petition to parliament with about 11,000 signatures. “Last week at a second reading in the Legislative Council, Liberal MP David Davis suggested an amendment to the Planning and Environment Amendment (Distinctive Areas and Landscapes) Bill 2017 that would allow the Mornington Peninsula – along with Macedon Ranges, Yarra Ranges and the Bellarine Peninsula – to have localised planning statements instead of being wrapped into the Victoria Planning Scheme. “Despite all the hard work and effort across the Mornington Peninsula to avoid this disastrous planning situation the Greens, a party for the environment, have chosen to allow the Macedon Ranges only to be included. “It would appear that the Greens have no concern for the Green Wedge and distinctive areas and landscapes on the peninsula.” Continued Page 12

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