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Kangaroo great Anthony Stevens writes exclusively for Star Weekly
Hawks’ continued success Woodend-Hesket made it a third straight Riddell District Football Netball League A-grade netball premiership on the league’s biggest day on Saturday. The Hawks were dominant in defence as they accounted for Riddell. It wasn’t all bad news for the Bombers as they made it back-to-back premierships in the senior football as they came from behind to beat Macedon. For a wrap up and more
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Truck headache By Georgia Tacey Residents of a quiet Sunbury street say more than 600 trucks are travelling along their road daily – and they have had enough. Residents have started an Instagram campaign to showcase the daily struggles of living on Canterbury Avenue. Resident Megan, who did not want her surname published for safety reasons, has counted the trucks passing by her house daily and said it is more than 600 per day. “For the last six months, we’ve been having hundreds and hundreds of large
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vehicles coming down our street,” she said. “These trucks are going and dumping their loads on a private property that is being accessed from the dead end of our street.” Hume council confirmed the property in question is 370 Riddell Road, Sunbury. Megan said the truck movements have been a constant disruption to residents’ daily lives, adding that they no longer feeling safe walking down the street as the narrow road was not built for a large volume of traffic. “The noise is just endless,” Megan said.
“My husband works from home and you can’t talk on the phone properly because it’s from 7am until 5 o’clock on the dot. “There’s dust absolutely everywhere … the cars are covered in dust, they’re getting dented from rocks.” She said the trucks were mostly double trailer trucks and full of dirt and rocks. Megan said residents have made reports to Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria, which confirmed receiving the reports and is liaising with council on the issue. Megan said herself and other residents
have also made complaints to council. In a statement, council said its planning investigations team was looking into the activity at 370 Riddell Road. “The landowner has advised that the works are related to farming, which would be exempt from a planning permit requirement,” the statement said. “We are concerned that the scale of activity goes beyond what would be expected for agricultural use and we are actively pursuing this.” Continued: Page 3