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Peninsula planning The Mornington Peninsula will be gone like the Tassie devil if state Planning Minister Matthew Guy gets his way. The deadline for submissions is September 21 but the ministry is playing dead on this issue which could change the Mornington Peninsula forever. They are keeping it very quiet â&#x20AC;&#x201D; no information for the public, but informed rumour has it that developers are already buying up around our villages and towns. The new zonings being initiated aim to increase the number of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;as of rightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; commercial uses with no rights of appeal when a large development is to be plonked next to or near residents. This includes no right

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to appeal against unlimited hours of operation. Even worse are the proposed changes to the peninsulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rural zones. In these zones, including farming and the green wedge, all existing limits on tourism based developments will be removed with no new strategy to protect us from overdevelopment. This includes the effects on existing businesses which are sure to be devalued. The existing urban growth boundaries will disappear. The age of the unfettered developer will arrive on the peninsula. The rural landscape once devalued will never return. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the thing about planning, development can never be returned to the past. Development â&#x20AC;&#x201D; good or bad â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is forever. David Gill, former Mornington Shire president

Re: National parks Last time there was a plan to sell off parts of Point Nepean, the community rose up very strongly and stopped it dead in its tracks. Those behind this latest policy change should cast their minds back a few years, and remember exactly what happened. The embarrassing backdown by the Howard government was a huge victory for community action. If this is a preparatory step towards commercial development, it will run into a brick wall.

The community stands ready to stop it again. So, developers be warned. You will go broke if WillB (via web) you get involved in this.

Re: Aldi Somerville Yet another disgraceful, inept, insensitive, inconsiderate decision by what I trust will become the late unlamented Mornington Peninsula Shire Council. Even in these times of a multicultural society, to sell a war memorial site commemorating fallen Australian soldiers to a German company just about takes the biscuit. Roger Lambert, Mornington

Re: Council to open more camp sites Do ratepayers realise that councillors voted at a meeting in Mornington on August 27 [Weekly, September 5] to spend $100,000-plus of our money out of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget in order to construct another 77 powered camping sites on designated public open space on the Rosebud foreshore? Why werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t residents informed and given time to object? Why are we paying for cheap holidays for Melburnians when there is no money to repair our roads, drainage and rubbish problems? Doris Campbell, Rosebud

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