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Signing up against housing plan
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MORE than 700 signatures are on a petition protesting at Mornington Peninsula Shire’s plan for social housing to be built on a reserve at Capel Sound. Residents say they are not against affordable housing but insist that developing the 10,000 square metre site at 11a Allambi Road will deprive existing residents of the only open space left in the area. The shire says half of the land will be retained as a park and has accused protesters of circulating “misleading” flyers. Richard Brown said residents wanted council to hear their voices and acknowledge the findings of the Dropping Off the Edge report that found concentrating social housing was “a bad plan where alternatives existed to provide emergency accommodation with state government capacity”. The report by Jesuit Social Services and Catholic Social Services Australia classifies Capel Sound as being “significantly disadvantaged”. Residents have also said the shire’s proposal “harks back to the days of building low-cost housing like the 60s and 70s”, which they say “reinforced disadvantage” to the occupants. Liz Bell
Laws for everyone and (nearly) everything Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au ALTHOUGH not always rigorously enforced, Mornington Peninsula Shire has powers that enable it to be involved in many aspects of peoples’ daily lives. Rules to manage alcohol use, parking, open air burning, and short-stay rentals are well known, but they also cover feeding birds in the backyard; leaving rubbish bins out for too long; and the need to provide council with
details of anyone who is being given a cat or dog. Anyone thinking of taking a threeday break may soon need to take account of rubbish collections. Bins must not be put out for more than one day before collection or left out after the following day in rewritten laws being considered by council. In their updated local laws councillors want to cut the length of time someone may camp on private land where there is a dwelling from six months in any 12 months to one month.
Council also proposes giving itself (or an authorised officer) the power to allow camping on “on a road or council land” in cases of homelessness. “Hoon events” are recognised, with a ban on participation, attendance or encouragement. Drivers are also banned from parking within 200 metres of a vehicle involved in such an event. Real estate agents might want to be aware that the local law will ban filming for commercial purposes from council land or a road without
a permit (although the shire has not responded to The News about this). In line with legislative requirements, council is seeking public comment on changes proposed for the local laws. Among the changes sought is renaming the General Purposes Local Law to Community Amenity Local Law “to better reflect the intent of the majority of provisions contained within it”. Although already subject to some minor changes, further reviews will be made this year of regulations applying
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to open air burning, incinerators and chimneys and, next year, short stay accommodation. Many of the rules and regulations can be triggered by upset neighbours. The bird feeding rule is being brought in because avian visitors to one person’s garden may be regarded as a nuisance next door. So too with “housing” for animals kennels, aviary’s, guinea pig hutches - which must not be attached to fences and be at least one metre from the boundary line. Continued Page 12