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Flight details FORMER jumbo jet pilot Nick Caudwell is almost ready to take to the skies in a plane designed nearly a century ago. He took more than nine years to build the Sopwith Snipe from original blueprints in his Mt Eliza garage. The biplane is now nearing completion at Tyabb airfield. Story Page 7. Picture: Yanni
Bid for smaller servos By Mike Hast THE twin freeway service centres on Peninsula Link at Baxter will be smaller than first proposed. The twin centres were knocked back by Mornington Peninsula Shire in December 2011 and the refusal confirmed by the state planning tribunal in mid2013. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal stated that key reasons for the refusal included insufficient traffic to justify the twin servos, loss of green wedge farmland, and the
project’s potential impact on breeding grounds of the threatened dwarf galaxia native fish. Service station builder AA Holdings reworked its proposal and bypassed the council and the tribunal, asking Transport Minister Terry Mulder to lobby Planning Minister Matthew Guy to rule on a smaller proposal. Mr Guy is seeking comment from the shire before making a decision but there will be no public consultation. The proposal was on the agenda for last night’s council meeting.
AA Holdings has reducing the size of buildings on both sides from 3000 square metres to 1500 and from 9 metres high to 6. Other changes include food shops reduced from five to three, smaller and lower canopies over fuel bowsers, smaller signs, and improved picnic areas that will feature fountains. Earth mounds will be constructed near both servos to reduce noise for residential neighbours. About 1500 trees and an unknown number of shrubs and other plants will
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The twin servos will take about a year to build. Rosemary West of Green Wedges Coalition said it was bad enough that the peninsula green wedge had been scarred by Peninsula Link without twin service centres going in the green wedge at Baxter. “There are almost identical facilities in Frankston and in peninsula towns about 10 minutes from the Baxter side,” she said. “If the state government supports this, there will be consequences at the upcoming election.”
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be grown. The northbound servo has been moved about 100 metres from dwarf galaxia habitat. AA Holdings’ town planner David Hansen said there had been significant changes made to deal with VCAT and council concerns about the environment and amenity. New inclusions include rainwater tanks, LED lights and recharging bays for electric cars. A wetland would be constructed in the area where dwarf galaxia had been seen in the past.
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