Extra conditions for aged care bid Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au
Model behaviour displayed at Crib Point’s ‘airfield’ MEMBERS of the Western Port Model Aircraft Club are gearing for their second open day at the airfield at 360 The Esplanade, Crib Point, Sunday 21 April. Model aircraft of all types, sizes and styles: from helicopters, jets, civilian and military type aircraft all based on the real thing and sounding just as good are flown from the airfield. The club’s 100 members have varying ages and experience levels, some holding world records and one,
a junior, is a world champion in pylon F3D racing. They will be assisted by members of model aircraft clubs from around the state. As well as aircraft on display, members of other radio control hobbies will showcase and demonstrate tanks, cars, crawlers and boats. Community groups, including the CFA, HMAS Cerberus, Victorian Maritime Centre, classic car clubs, motorcycle clubs, Western Port Coast
Guard and the Balnarring Scout Group will participate on the day. This event is supported and sponsored by the Balnarring and District branch of the Bendigo Bank. The activities will run 10am-4pm. Other special interest groups participating on the day include Victorian Armoured Radio Control Club, Illawong Model Boat Group, Victorian Maritime Centre, and South Eastern Radio Controlled Car Club.
A DECISION by Mornington Peninsula Shire Council to insist on entries from Balnarring Road and not Brooksby Square has given fresh hopes to opponents of a planned aged care home in Balnarring. Members of the group – who spoke out against the Arcare proposal at the shire’s planning services committee meeting on 1 April – do not want traffic and parking problems clogging their quiet court. They presented a 259-signature petition to the council claiming the 75-bed residential aged care centre would be detrimental to their semi-rural street by creating extra traffic flows, random parking and exacerbating safety issues, especially bushfire risk. Although steeling themselves for a second VCAT hearing on 29 April the 14 neighbours who attended the council meeting rated the outcome “better than expected” because, although councillors voted for the development, strict conditions imposed insist the entry is from Balnarring Road; that 10 extra car spaces are added and that entry and exit from the centre be leftturn only. Janet Eyles said the conditions would “alleviate some of the problems of traffic and parking that we would inevitably have”. She praised the mayor Cr David Gill for “recognising that
indiscriminate parking would almost certainly occur if the entrances were in Brooksby Square”. “The real battle will come at VCAT on 29 April and 12 June, but this decision should give us some confidence,” she said. The residents are concerned by a VicRoads’ preference for access and egress from Brooksby Square rather than from the busier Balnarring Road “where there is a choice”. “We are saying that it is more unsafe to have the entry at Brooksby Square as there will be pedestrians crossing at this point and it will become a choking point of vehicles and pedestrians, whereas the entry [into Balnarring Road] would not have the complication of pedestrians crossing,” Ms Eyles said. “All traffic would flow into the facility and there would be no inconvenience and [no] safety threat to Brooksby Square residents. “We would prefer that the facility is not built on that site as it is an overdevelopment but … we are willing to compromise.” Arcare was contacted for comment.
Bowls in budget THE federal government’s 2019/20 budget includes $100,000 for lighting at Mornington Civic, Somerville, Sorrento and Rosebud Bowls Clubs, while the Mt Martha Club will get $25,000 replace centre green.
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