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Cherry hosts a new flavour It will be a Father’s Day extravaganza to Finnish them all. People will be able to get a taste of Finland at next month’s Cherry Lake Market in Altona. The Lions Club of Altona runs the fundraising market on the first Sunday of every month. However, the market falling on Father’s Day – Sunday, September 1 – will have a distinctively different flavour. The Lions have partnered with the Finnish Society of Melbourne for a celebration of all things Finnish. Market-goers will be able to experience Finnish food and culture while browsing all the usual stalls of trash and treasure, toys, clothes and homegrown and homemade goods. There will also be specialty Finnish stalls with pulla sweet bread, salmiakki salty licorice, Nordic berries, gingerbread, kransky sausages, coffee and chocolates. The Spirit of Finland choir and Tanhu Finnish folk dancers will perform, and there will be Finland tourist information for those thinking of visiting. One lucky person will win a 90-minute sauna session for themselves and seven friends at the Finnish society’s sauna. The Cherry Lake Market is on Sunday, September 1 from 8.30am-1.30pm at Altona’s Cherry Lake off Millers Road. Anyone interested in running their own stall for $20 should call 0400 002 192. Goya Dmytryshchak
James Henderson, Tara Jumpponen, Tanja Kankaanpaa and Mauri Kankaanpaa. (Damjan Janevski)
Zone changes approved By Goya Dmytryshchak
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Pockets of Altona, Laverton, Altona North, South Kingsville and Williamstown have been earmarked for “substantial change” under three new residential development zones in Hobsons Bay. The zones approved by the council are: • Residential growth zone allowing at least four storeys. • General residential zone with a three-storey height limit. • Neighbourhood residential zone limited to two storeys.
The residential growth zone includes areas around Altona, Laverton, Westona, Aircraft and North Williamstown train stations, pockets along Millers and Blackshaws roads at Altona North and Sutton Street, South Kingsville. Part of Newport, around the train station, has been excluded from the new zones because a heritage study is “well progressed”. Williamstown has been mostly designated a neighbourhood zone, with “limited change”. Cr Colleen Gates told last week’s council meeting that protecting heritage was “really critical”.
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“The streetscape you see in Laverton compared to, say, Newport compared to Altona, are significantly different and create very important character that people appreciate when they’re moving from one part of the municipality to the other,” she said. Cr Gates said the state government in 2014 had put a blanket three-storey zoning across the whole municipality. “What we’re proposing here is to reduce that back to 21 per cent and then scale back to a neighbourhood residential zone with a two-storey height limit to 77 per cent of the residentially zoned land,” she said.
“The gap, or what’s left over, is the residential growth zone and that’s been applied to two per cent across the municipality and focused on areas with walking or easy access to transport.” The council had received 57 submissions on the new zones, mainly concerned about over-development in Altona and Newport and, conversely, limitations to development that could adversely impact property values. The planning scheme amendment is expected to take 12 to 18 months to be implemented, with community members to receive another opportunity to lodge an objection or submission when it is formally exhibited.
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