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Council continues crackdown on ‘illegal’ residents Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au FRANKSTON Council officers alongside CFA and Victoria Police have entered an abandoned restaurant on the Nepean Highway to boot out people residing “illegally” in the building. Council CEO Dennis Hovenden said that six residents were kicked out of the former location of the Pint and
Pickle restaurant on 5 February after multiple reports from residents of people coming and going from the building. “We found illegal accommodation, we found the building to be unsafe, we found a lot of rubbish. Orders have now been issued that the illegal occupation has to cease within 72 hours and the owner will be served with notices to secure the building, and clean up all of the rubbish. Failure to comply
would result in enforcement,” he said. “The six residents have been told they have to vacate and find other accommodation. They said they had the permission of the owner to stay there. They’ve been told they have to vacate the premises, they have no option. “The residents were expressing concern that there was maybe illegal activity going on there, like drug taking. They were really concerned that they had in recent days seen school chil-
dren going into the building. Therefore with the concerns of the residents we took immediate action that afternoon.” Mr Hovenden told The Times “the site has a bit of a history, it is known to the police that had to attend”. He said that the living conditions in the building were very concerning, with one officer appearing to suffer from “flea bites”. Mr Hovenden said no school children were present when council offic-
ers entered the building. Mr Hovenden said if those that were booted were “having trouble finding emergency accommodation, we work with those people to identify emergency accommodation.” After first entering on 5 February, police and council officers entered the building again on 8 February to follow up. Continued Page 5
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