9 August 2016

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Western Port

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5973 6424 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Grand occasion: Derek Seller and Sue Bell gear up for the Moorooduc hall’s centenary celebration. Picture: Yanni

Managers ready for hall’s 100th IT may surprise, but the little village of Moorooduc once had two halls. ONE has long since disappeared but the other, widely known as The Little Red Brick Hall, on the corner of Bentons and Derril roads, is about to turn 100. To celebrate the centenary, Moorooduc Progress Association, which manages the hall, will hold an open day 10am-5pm, Saturday 20 August. Families and organisations which have had an association with the hall in the past have been invited to set up displays of photographs and memorabilia. Past residents of the area are invited to attend. Details: Derek Seller 5977 6893 or Sue Bell 5978 8052.

Town plans on poll agenda Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au THE future planning of town and villages in the Western Port area will be a significant issue in deciding councillors for the Red Hill, Watson and Cerberus wards at the October municipal elections. One major point of contention will be the time being taken by Mornington Peninsula Shire in drawing up a strategy for coastal towns, which has been flagged in successive budgets for the

past 11 years. Critics claim small towns are seeing developments more suited to the peninsula’s major centres, such as Somerville, Hastings, Mornington, Dromana, Rosebud and Sorrento. They argue that the same criteria should not be applied to small towns and villages like Balnarring, Somers Shoreham and Flinders in Western Port and Blairgowrie and McCrae facing Port Phillip. Watson ward, which includes Somerville and Tyabb, has been without its own elected councillor since the 2 May

resignation of Lynn Bowden. The timing of her departure did not trigger a by-election as elections will be held for all of the shire’s 11 council places in October. The mayor Cr Graham Pittock announced that he would represent Watson ward ratepayers as well as those in his own ward of Seawinds. The Tyabb & District Ratepayers’ group in its August newsletter says it believes the ward has been “underrepresented … a view held by others within the community who have been frustrated at a lack of active council-

lor support for several community projects”. An editorial in the newsletter says much of the work now being carried out in the ward had its beginnings with Aldona Martin, the ward’s councillor eight years ago. The group warns that Tyabb needs “a strong voice in council”, especially with the imminent release of the Tyabb Airfield Precinct Plan. Elsewhere in the newsletter an article alleges shire officers ignored for some weeks reports that a garage on land abutting the airport was being used to

store aircraft contrary to a Victorian Civil Administrative Tribunal order. “The shire contacted the landowner a week before they inspected the property and, surprise, surprise, the aircraft was no longer in the hangar when they got there,” the newsletter states. Closer to the bay’s edge, Somers residents have been locked in battle with the shire over its plans to build a series of concrete footpaths through the town. An appeal against the shire’s decision is due to be heard by VCAT on 17 August. Continued Page 10

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