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5973 6424 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Stage right: Brittany Harding, Simon Hudson and Ben Schneider rehearse for Western Port Secondary College’s production Man of Steel – a Musical Spoof. Picture: Gary Sissons
Taking the mickey out of Superman WESTERN Port Secondary students are presenting their production of Man of Steel – a Musical Spoof, at 7pm, Thursday 21 and Friday 22 July, in the schools’ Performing Arts Centre. “It has been a great team effort from the many students and staff involved,” producer Donna Nairn said. “We have worked hard to create a positive experience for our students and we hope that we can celebrate their achievements with their families, friends and local community.” Students from all year levels have been involved in roles, including a strong ensemble cast of actors, funky live band, front of house and backstage crews, set construction, makeup and costumes, and publicity. Students from local primary schools are being bussed in to a special matinee dress rehearsal. Tickets are on sale at the office for $2.
Anger over hangar plan Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire is advertising an application to store light aircraft in a shed on land beside Tyabb airfield – even though the shed was built without a planning permit. The decision to exhibit the planning scheme amendment follows a 2014 shire ruling that any decision on use of the site – 62 Stuart Rd, Tyabb – must wait until completion of the Tyabb Air-
field Precinct Plan which is expected to begin in September. Objectors claim the move gives the applicant, Peninsula Aero Club member Ken Ingersoll, “backdoor approval for the hangar in spite of the still-valid 2004 reasons for it not being there”. Tyabb and District Ratepayers’ Group says the use of private land to store aircraft is “an incremental expansion of the airfield”. The group says council has previously “walked away” from seeking a
demolition order “for reasons it cannot satisfactorily explain”. Group members Peter and Val Davis say there is still a VCAT order in force prohibiting use of the land for aircraft storage, which will lapse if the amendment is successful. Mr Ingersoll did not respond to requests by The News for comment. In 2011 Mr Ingersoll was ordered by Frankston Magistrates’ Court to pay a $10,000 “bond” for building the shed without a permit in 2010 and for stor-
ing 11 aircraft on the site. The Victorian Civil Administrative Authority (VCAT) also ordered Mr Ingersoll to cease using the land as an aircraft hangar and remove aircraft stored there. The site specific planning scheme amendment now being proposed by the shire for the low density residential zone land was moved in April by former councillor Lynn Bowden and seconded by Cr David Garnock. In a report to the council’s 11 April meeting strategic planning manager
Allan Cowley said the proposal was to enable use of an “existing building” for private storage of equipment and aircraft by the landowner, despite him being unable to claim ancillary-use rights because he lives in Baxter. He said approvals were “usually limited to people who occupy dwellings on the land” but that, “in this case, it is the [non-resident] landowner who wishes to take up this use and that’s why this amendment enables the relatively minor variation”. Cont Page 7
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