A SMALL cluster of COVID-19 cases in Frankston has been linked to an outbreak at Chadstone Shopping Centre. The number of active COVID-19 cases in the Frankston postcode jumped by five on Sunday, 20 September, bringing the total number of active cases in the municipality to nine. On 1 October, deputy chief health officer Allen Cheng said that the rise in cases in Frankston involved one household, and had been traced to the outbreak at Chadstone. “On the outbreaks, we have a bit of a situation in Frankston that is linked to the Chadstone cases,” he said. “So at Chadstone,…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
THE planning minister has been asked to move the former Kingswood golf site in Dingley Village outside of the state’s Urban Growth Boundary. At their 21 September meeting, councillors voted to write to the minister requesting the change. They also agreed to lobby local MPs to support the change. A report will be presented to the November council meeting, the first after the local government elections, on “the preparation of strategic support for this proposal and for that to be integrated with the review of the Kingston Green Wedge Management Plan”. The Victorian Planning Authority website reads that the purpose…
KINGSTON councillors have rejected a proposal to begin receiving a monthly report of policy and legislation breaches. The report, which would have been made a public document, was suggested by Cr David Eden. The mayor Georgina Oxley and Cr Rosemary West supported Cr Eden’s proposal, but Crs Tamsin Bearsley, Ron Brownlees, Geoff Gledhill, and George Hua opposed. Crs Steve Staikos and Tamara Barth abstained from the vote, and the motion was defeated. Cr Eden said “I don’t think this is something that is a massive new task with investigators and a tremendous amount of work, it is not that. It…
EXPRESSIONS of interest have opened to find a private consortium to build the planned Frankston Hospital upgrade. The $562 million expansion is set to proceed as a public-private partnership. The state government says they are seeking a “consortium to deliver the project”, which was promised at the 2018 state election. Plans for the hospital redevelopment include the addition of 120 more beds, two operating theatres, oncology facilities, new obstetrics, maternity, and paediatric wards, a women’s clinic, a special care nursery, and a new main entrance. Geotechnical investigations were completed at the site in July. Construction of the new hospital tower…
NEARLY a third of new COVID-19 cases recorded in Victoria on Sunday were from Frankston. There were 16 new cases of coronavirus found statewide on 27 September. Frankston residents made up five of those. All new cases found in the Frankston area were within the postcode 3199. Across the whole municipality, there are nine active cases of COVID-19 as of 27 September. One of those positive tests was linked to the Baptcare Peninsula View aged care site in Frankston South. Baptcare has confirmed that a contractor who last worked at the site on 23 September had tested positive. “Out of…