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Racing icon bows out Kevin Wynne’s incredible contribution to the racing industry was reflected upon at Cranbourne Turf Club on Friday night as he called time on a magnificent career. Wynne, a star jockey for 44 years, has been a Clerk of the Course for two decades, and has been a familiar face at Cranbourne over the journey. His wife Dianne and daughter Sally, pictured, have also been heavily involved in the industry. Sally said her dad had been around horses since he was a kid. “He’s been doing it all his life, he used to skip school when he was little and run and grab the pit ponies from the local mine and bring his mum back home on the pony,” she said. “It’s been going on forever, it’s his passion, it’s his love, so with any luck, I’ll keep him going at the (training) track.” Turn to page 13 for more on Kevin’s big night
Picture: ROSS HOLBURT/RACING PHOTOS
Station stink-up By Violet Li Furious Casey communities are objecting to a planning application that would see a waste transfer station next to the controversial Hallam Road Landfill, and have voiced accompanying concerns about fire risks, midnight noise, and increased traffic, dust, and odour. In July 2023, Casey Council endorsed a new Hampton Park Hill Development Plan that would facilitate future waste and resource recovery activities in the area, including the development of a waste transfer station. The Draft Development Plan attracted more than 1000 objections in 2022 and residents were vocally against the potential waste transfer station proposed at the site of Hallam
Road Landfill by its operator Veolia Australia. Veolia officially lodged a planning permit application to Casey Council on 29 December 2023 to build a $27m commercial waste transfer station. In its submitted proposal, the proposed infrastructure is to ‘support waste management needed in the region due to the impending closure of the Hallam Road Landfill’. Located approximately 250m from the nearest residential dwelling, the new facility would accept about 550,000 tonnes of municipal residual waste, construction and demolition waste, and commercial and industrial waste from Melbourne’s Southeast. It would recover and recycle some waste
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streams and transfer residual waste to energy recovery facilities. Despite a webpage established by Veolia to address community concerns, residents have not been convinced that the neighbourhood would be free from negative environmental impacts by the new facility. Hampton Park resident Tony O’Hara said his biggest worry was the potential fire risks the station might incur. According to Veolia, waste will be visually inspected on the tipping floor, consolidated, packed into containers, and loaded into trucks. The potential fire ‘should be able to be contained within individual containers which help with fire management’.
Mr O’Hara said incorrect disposal of batteries in rubbish bins could easily be responsible for huge fires and it was too hard to put the fire out inside a closed vehicle. “They [Veolia] get the waste. They compact it, and they put it in a squashed format inside the bigger trucks. It’s a squashing process, which is the biggest danger,” he said. “You break open batteries, and you can cause sparks and cause violence. “Now if it’s a normal fire of materials, it may not be so bad, but when batteries are involved, they seem to be able to generate still fire even with very minimal oxygen.” Continued page 8
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