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Frankston Beach Patrol members will be working hard on 15 June as part of the Seaside Scavenge Festival beach clean up event. See story page 3. Picture: Gary Sissons
Sale of Evelyn Street open space stopped Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au FRANKSTON Council have backed out of a move to sell a parcel of public land on Evelyn Street to the Department of Justice. Council voted on 18 February to negotiate the sale of the land in a vote that was intended to take place behind closed doors. Councillors voted to bring that debate into the public section of the meeting. On 3 June council moved to reverse the decision to negotiate the sale of the land, voting to ensure “the Evelyn
Street site 17R and 19R-21R will not be sold and is to be retained as open space for the people of Frankston both now and into the future” and “that a report be provided at the August ordinary meeting on options for planting and landscape improvements to the Evelyn Street open space as a value added public area.” Crs Kris Bolam, Sandra Mayer, and Brian Cunial voted in favour of negotiating the sale of the land in February. They all switched sides at the 3 June meeting and voted in favour of retaining the land as open green space. Cr Mayer said “I supported [the sale] originally thinking about creating jobs
and having community services in there. We were told at a briefing there was no other suitable site, which I now question. I think this is the cheapest and easiest site.” “I went out there and I had a look at the space, it’s now sectioned off so there are no cars parked there anymore. There are a number of established trees there, there’s gum trees. The barbecue is old, but if we rehabilitate the space a bit it could be something quite special,” she said. “There wasn’t support from the community, we do need to learn from our previous decisions that we’ve made that haven’t been very popular that we
can’t undo.” Cr Steve Toms said “in the 1960s this parcel of land was given to the people of Frankston. Since then it’s been public land and in my view it should remain public land, and it should be enhanced going forward. The suggestion has come from various different residents to me that they would not like to see the last element of green space in the CAA disappear into the ether and be swallowed up by a government department.” “While Evelyn Street at this stage is not very well maintained, and there have been cars parking on it in recent times which they are not allowed to do,
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it is the last green space in the CAA. It’s a fantasy to say if we put money aside and into a fund then maybe one day a council will decide to spend it. Who says a future council would actually spend it? Why replace what isn’t broke,” he said. “There is a record high vacancy rate of buildings in Frankston, why couldn’t they have gone into one of them?” Crs Glenn Aitken, Quinn McCormack, Toms, Cunial, and Mayer voted to retain the land as open space. Crs Colin Hampton, Lillian O’Connor, and Michael O’Reilly voted against it. Continued Page 5
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