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Tip to open all hours By Laura Michell Operators of the Wollert tip have been given the green light to run the landfill 24 hours a day. Whittlesea council has agreed to amend the tip’s permit, allowing Hanson Landfill Services to accept commercial waste 24 hours a day. There will be no change to public hours. Currently, the landfill operates from 7am-6pm Monday to Saturday and 8am-6pm on Sundays and public holidays. Commercial customers can use the tip 3am-6pm daily. The changes will allow the tip to remain open to commercial customers between 6pm and 3am.
Doreen youngster Shaylen Lowe is at home shooting a bow. The 10-year-old first picked up a bow four years ago, quickly developing a love for 3D archery. Unlike traditional archery, 3D archery is a field-based sport in which 3D lifelike animal targets are set up on a course over several kilometres of bushland. The targets are at unmarked distances, requiring archers to judge how far the target animal is from them. Competitions take place over an entire weekend. Shaylen has 78 state records and five national records for archers under 13 to her name, and was recently named the Australian Bowhunters Association state champion for her age group. In November, she will travel to Coffs Harbour to compete in the 3D Archery Association of Australia’s national finals, where she is hoping to finish in the top three. She is also heading to Norfolk Island next year for a week-long competition, ahead of a trip to Las Vegas in 2020 for a 3D safari competition. Shaylen, who is a member of Diamond Valley Archers in Yarrambat, said she took up archery after watching her sister shoot off horseback at pony club camp. “I have loved archery since I first tried it. I love shooting my compound bow and I love going away camping with my friends to shoot and I love walking the bush track, exploring and finding where the next target is hidden in the bush,” she said. “My favourite animal to shoot is the turkey and the crocodile. I like shooting up into trees and down steep hills too because it makes it interesting and you never know where or what the next target is until you get to it.”
I’d be happy to see the landfill go elsewhere
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Hanson Landfill Services has also been given approval to upgrade and relocate the site’s waste transfer station, with the new facility to be built in the south-eastern pocket of the tip site, 25 metres from Bridge Inn Road. The application to change the tip’s operating hours received objections from eight residents who predominantly raised concerns about the adverse impact of the site operating all day. Residents are concerned the increased operating hours will result in additional noise from trucks and machinery, as well as headlights shining through their windows throughout the night. In a bid to address residents’ concerns, councillors requested that a barrier be installed adjacent to the northern and eastern boundaries of the landfill area to prevent disturbances to residents. They also prohibited the movement of landfill material and the use of landfill machinery on any part of the site within 200 metres of a boundary before 7am and after 6pm Monday to Saturday, and all day on Sundays. Cr Tom Joseph said the permit conditions were aimed at ensuring surrounding properties didn’t “pay a high price for having a tip in their backyard”. Councillors Norm Kelly, Ricky Kirkham and Alahna Desiato opposed the permit being amended, with Cr Kelly saying the tip had been the subject of numerous complaints over the years. “I’d be happy to see the landfill go elsewhere,” he said.
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