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Panthers spring to victory EXHAUSTED Hastings player Danielle Lovett takes hold of the ball in the final quarter of the game against Devon Meadows. Despite the valliant efforts of the Blues they were no match for the much stronger Panthers, which went on to win 58 points to 18. Picture: Andrew Hurst
Backing for green wedges By Mike Hast THE shire council has been surprised at the level of interest from residents at its first four “Plan Peninsula” meetings for protecting green wedge zones. The first of 15 “Plan Peninsula Conversations” started late last month in Rye and Mornington, with residents providing ideas to Mornington Peninsula Shire planners.
Meetings at Mt Eliza and Dromana were held last week. There has been almost unanimous support for retaining the existing 70-30 split between green wedges and development, and keeping land for farming rather than development. “Residents want farmers to be allowed to be farmers and not forced to be developers due to rising rates and
other costs,” a shire spokesman said. The shire’s draft budget proposes increasing the agricultural rate from 30 to 35 per cent. It would see owners of agricultural land pay full rates on the land around homes and outbuildings, but 35 per cent on the remainder. There was strong support for flora and fauna corridors, also known as biolinks. Although the first meetings have
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been on the Port Phillip side of the peninsula, there also was strong support for an expanded Port of Hastings to become a “green” port with the state government encouraged to do all possible to keep Western Port unpolluted. Western Port residents can have a say about the future of the peninsula over the next 20 to 30 years at three public meetings this week.
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Residents’ input will form part of the shire’s submission to the state government’s “Mornington Peninsula Planning Statement”, promised prior to the 2010 state election (‘Plans for our future’, The News, 19/6/12). The statement will guide how the government allows the peninsula to develop and what will be preserved. Continued Page 2
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