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19 May 2015
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5973 6424 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Cake time: Melissa Rigby, seen here with Sundae Wherewera, handed out her homemade cupcakes when the Monday morning mum’s group met after Mother’s Day. Picture: Gary Sissons
House makes mums centre of attention WHAT happens when a group of mums get together at Wallaroo Community House? Why, lots of fun, pampering and friendship, of course. Wallaroo Community House – run by Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand, at 6 Wallaroo Place, Hastings - hosted Monday’s activities which had the needs of women in mind. Acknowledging and empowering women is high on Good Shepherd’s agenda. “There is no better time of the year to come together over a cuppa and a cupcake and spoil a mother or two, to say ‘thank you’ for everything that they do,” Wallaroo coordinator Melissa Rigby said. She thanked all the mums who joined in the day’s activities. Corporate sponsorship and donations from many Hastings traders and small businesses was also a big help, especially Peninsula Health. “Thanks to all for this wonderful community support,” she said. “We had a great mums’ day.” To hear more about Wallaroo Community House, pop in for a cuppa or call 5970 7000.
Height concerns over retirement plan Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au THE size of a proposed retirement village at Somerville is concerning nearby residents and a Mornington Peninsula Shire councillor. The development, at 16 Graf Rd, Somerville, is for a 223-bed facility of between two and three storeys in 11
separate buildings. The shire advertised the notice of application last week and it is expected to go before council next month. Objectors claim the proposal is not in keeping with the character of the town; that its height will be visually overpowering and that infrastructure, such as roads and drainage, will not be able to cope with the extra demand.
Cr Lynn Bowden said she was “concerned about the height of the proposal” and that she “was taking steps to ensure consideration of the proposal comes before the full council and not just the officers”. The three storey buildings are proposed on the highest parts of the 3.2 hectare site, which has a 105 metre frontage to Graf Rd and 109 metres to
Eramosa Rd. It is on the western edge of the town’s commercial activity centre. “Somerville’s nature is a singlestorey rural town,” Cr Bowden said. “There’s very little multi-storey development here and, while we may need another retirement village, it has got to fit in with the town’s character.” She said other retirement villages on the peninsula were all single storey. “If
you put three storeys here then all of downtown can go to three storeys – and how many rural towns have three storey buildings?. It’s not a major activity.” Cr Bowden said the height of some of the buildings and their elevation would make them higher than the Centro shopping centre. “They’ll overlook the whole town.” Continued Page 6
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