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Wednesday 23 October 2019
5974 9000 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Valuing heritage: Eileen Keith, Anna Buchhorn, Norma Gittins, Robin Hick, Rick Daly, Ian Wisken and Maree Leyden, Renata Lusnats, Marjorie Wisken; sitting: Cr David Gill, Ilma Hackett, Chris Hackett and Sue Gilbert. Picture: Gary Sissons
Follow the trail of heritage highlights BALNARRING residents and visitors can now combine history and exercise on the Heritage Trail. After 12 months planning and work, 15 signs now connect places and sites of historical interest close to Balnarring Village and around the Warrawee triangle. One sign had previously been placed at the Warrawee homestead, making 16 in all over the four-kilometre a walk. This major project of the Balnarring and District Historical Society comes about through a $5000 from Mornington Peninsula Shire. A guide book has also been written with a grant from the Balnarring and District Community Bank to help walkers. The book is available for a gold coin donation from the Balnarring newsagency or the Balnarring and District Community Bank.
New airfield permit early 2020 - shire Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire is hoping to have a “consolidated and enforceable permit” in place for Peninsula Aero Club to operate at Tyabb Airfield by early next year. In a statement last Wednesday (16 October) the shire said the permit would “update and modernise” three existing planning permits “to make
the existing club permits clearer and easier for all of the community to understand”. Two days later, club president Jack Vevers accused the shire of trying to “hoodwink the community into believing they are resolving the issues between the airport and the council”. “PAC say this feels like another poor attempt to bully PAC into an outcome and timeline that has not even been discussed, when PAC has been trying
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to find a solution to do this in the least disruptive way for all concerned,” Mr Vevers said on Friday. He said there had been no agreement or discussion for PAC to apply for a “consolidated permit by December or to have this implemented in early 2020, as claimed by the council”. “On a positive note, according to the council’s press statement, it would appear that the council now recognises that PAC does indeed have operating
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permits, which had been the basis of their attempted shut down of the airport which threatened 100 jobs,” Mr Vevers said. Earlier this year the shire issued stop work notices after finding some businesses operating within the airfield precinct did not the necessary permits (“Permit row grounds airfield” The News 11/6/19). When asked last week if PAC’s “consolidated permit” would include
these individual businesses the shire’s planning and building director David Bergin said: “Council is working individually with each business to prepare a planning permit application.” Mr Bergin said most of a master plan for the airfield (previously demanded by the shire) could be developed without the results of a noise study. He said results of a recent noise study “will be provided to councillors first at a briefing”. Continued Page 6