Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News 13 April 2022

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Pool promise With the 2022 federal election campaign officially underway, big money promises are being announced. Incumbent Labor MP Mark Dreyfus was at Jack Grut Reserve in Mordialloc last week to promise funding for a new aquatic centre. See story page 4. Picture: Supplied

Ratepayers cover legal costs for Cove hearing Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au KINGSTON ratepayers will cover the cost of legal fees incurred by a developer at a VCAT hearing into plans for the Endeavour Cove precinct in Patterson Lakes. Kingston mayor Steve Staikos says that council and the developer have come to a legal settlement which will

prevent the development of some areas at the Cove site. Development in areas where council approved permits in 2018 will be halted for two years. Council has agreed to pay $60,000 in ratepayer funding towards the developer’s legal fees. Cr Staikos said that paying the fees will “avoid a potentially lengthy, costly and uncertain legal hearing”. “This two-year hold will ensure that the planned development does not pro-

ceed until council and the state government introduce necessary changes to the planning controls to the area,” Cr Staikos said. The Endeavour Cove precinct is by the Patterson River marina and The Cove Hotel. The saga of the site’s development spans back to 1988 when initial plans were first formed. In 1994 the City of Chelsea approved development plans for the site, which changed considerably in the years that fol-

lowed. An Ombudsman investigation into planning decisions made at the site found that council approved plans for a three-storey development in 1999, a 40-lot subdivision in 2003, a five storey development in 2005, a four-storey development in 2009, two five-storey buildings in 2011, a rezoning in 2012, a six-storey building in 2013, and three multi-storey developments in 2018 (“Incompetence balmed for council’s Cove decisions” The News 20/10/21).

Earlier this year council undertook public consultation to help shape future changes to the planning controls at the site. In a statement, Kingston Council says it has made an application to the planning minister for “interim planning controls to protect the area until more permanent planning changes can be made.” Continued page 5

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