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Tasty, and deadly WEST Highland terrier pup Bella, pictured left, was lucky last week not to fall victim to a poison bait thrown into her Mt Martha yard. The nine-month-old brought the meatball inside and dropped it on the floor. Her owner quickly scooped it up, probably saving Bella’s life. Her owner and Mornington police are warning dog owners in the Cornwall Crescent, Hall and Hove roads and Somerset Drive areas, to be wary of any similar attempts to poison their pets. “Alert for dog poisoner” Page 5
Anger over state planning takeover Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au A STATE government-appointed advisory committee will decide whether a second German-based supermarket chain can open a store in Mornington. Planning Minister Richard Wynne has told Mornington Peninsula Shire that he will appoint a committee to “provide advice and recommendations” on
plans by Kaufland t o o pen s ix supermarkets around Melbourne. Mr Wynne’s move to help Kaufland progress through the planning process has angered Mornington Peninsula Shire mayor Cr Bryan Payne. Cr Payne said the advisory panel was “another example of Mr Wynne impinging on the responsibility of local government”. He said it ranked alongside three-storey building heights that were imposed
on the shire “with no consultation”. Cr Payne said it was obvious Mr Wynne knew before the shire about the plan for a Kaufland supermarket. He said taking planning decisions away from the shire “takes no account of the neighbourhood or environment”. “Usually ministers are asked to intervene when something goes wrong.” Cr Payne said. “We’re going to jump up and down about it. It’s an insult to local govern-
ment and we’ve been bypassed once again.” He said too many decisions made at the state level “might be applicable for inner [metropolitan] councils, but those rules don’t always apply here”. “They’re chipping away at our planning scheme.” The stores are planned for Mornington, Dandenong, Epping, Oakleigh South (including Kaufland Australia’s national headquarters), Coolaroo and
Chirnside Park. The company wants to build its Mornington store at the corner of Nepean Highway and Oakbank Road, in front of the Bata shoe factory. The land is used as a site for the annual visit by Silver’s Circus and was originally designed to present a pleasant entrance to the town in the forward development plan adopted in the 1970s by the then Shire of Mornington. Continued Page 3
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