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Wednesday, January 2016 Wednesday, July13, 3, 2019 MAKING A SPLASH: Rupanyup’s Trent Grant finds himself in the middle of a football ‘sponge’ during a sodden
Horsham District Football League match against Pimpinio at Pimpinio. Despite rain making life hard for outdoor sporting activities on Saturday, the downpour came as a blessing for broadacre farmers across the region. The weather system, which in some areas of the Wimmera produced up to 35 millimetres, sparked speculation about the forecasting benefits a new Rainbow weather radar station will provide for the region. Story, page 3. Picture: PAUL CARRACHER
Anxiety over plans BY COLIN MacGILLIVRAY
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port and recreation groups are up in arms about a Horsham Rural City Council vision to redevelop the city’s botanic gardens precinct.
Horsham Lawn Tennis Club, Horsham Croquet Club and Sawyer Park Miniature Railway fear for their futures after being left out of a council draft masterplan to transform the city during the next 20 years. The council will vote on a rescission
motion by Cr John Robinson concerning the public display of the masterplan at a special meeting tonight. The plan has angered the groups, which claimed council consultants failed to follow adequate engagement procedures. The plan aims to closely link the Horsham Botanic Gardens and riverfront area to the city’s central business district via the southern end of Firebrace Street, as part of redevelopment works.
About 15 people, including members of all three clubs and councillors Robinson and David Grimble, attended a meeting at the tennis club on Monday night to discuss the implications of the plan. Both councillors expressed concerns about the plan at last month’s ordinary council meeting and voted against publicly displaying it. Cr Robinson released an open letter on Monday stating he would stand aside for tonight’s special council
meeting because of concerns about what he described as a lack of appropriate governance standards within the council. Cr Robinson’s move attracted an immediate response from council chief executive Sunhil Bhalla, who refuted Cr Robinson’s claims of breaches in protocol and lack of community-consultation opportunities. Mr Bhalla said councillors had seven days’ notice of the special meeting, in compliance with Local Government
Act requirements, and that councillors had an opportunity to be involved in development of a draft masterplan, starting with a councillor briefing in August last year. “It was stated that the proposed plan was a draft and it would need to be resolved by council to make it available for public exhibition, which would provide an opportunity for feedback on the proposal by the user groups,” he said. Continued page 3
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