CAR parking fees at Frankston Hospital have been condemned as “exorbitant” by Frankston councillors. Councillors unanimously voted to write to the board of Peninsula Health and Health Minister Jill Hennessy to ask fees be reviewed amid council concerns about “excessive parking fees”. Cr Suzette Tayler said she had been shocked at the price of parking at Frankston Hospital on two recent visits. She said she had been charged $9 for a one hour and 10 minute stay. “I think it’s really important as a council to stand up and say something about the fees that are being asked for Frankston…
Author: Neil Walker
THE first stage of a long-awaited redevelopment of the Frankston Regional Basketball Centre can finally go ahead after the federal government confirmed a $4.95 million contribution to the project. Frankston Council has praised Dunkley Liberal MP Bruce Billson for his help to secure the funding after an initial application for the funds was knocked back over doubts there would be enough overall funding for the stadium redevelopment to be completed once begun (‘Stadium upgrade thrown into doubt’, The Times 6/7/15). Council will contribute $4 million to the stadium upgrade, the state government $2.5 million and the basketball association will put…
CARRUM Downs pupils will be among the first in Victoria to learn life-saving swimming skills as part of a new state government program to be trialled at Frankston’s Peninsula Aquatic Recreation Centre (PARC). About 200 pupils in grade 5 and 6 from Banyan Fields Primary School will take part in ten swimming lessons to learn “survival skills” such as treading water, floating, rescue strategies and basic CPR. The program aims to help children deal with emergencies, such as unexpectedly falling into water. Lessons at the PARC will take place before school hours next year and the pupils’ swimming abilities will…
A BUREAUCRATIC impasse could see the Chelsea branch of The Benevolent Society shut its doors early next year after 94 years helping the area’s disadvantaged with food parcels and vouchers. Chelsea branch president Frances Lean says an inadvertent error on an application form for $40,000 in federal funding, made every two years, means the Department of Social Services had no record of an application being made by the charity. “We applied for our funding but it seems our funding wasn’t registered with whoever it was sent to.” Ms Lean, the president of the Chelsea branch since the early 1990s, believes…
A PLANE crash in Chelsea and a gas leak from a landfill site in Heatherton have led to changes to Kingston Council’s emergency response protocols. While emergency services are the frontline responders to such incidents council officers also provide onsite and follow up help to those affected by such incidents. Council officers were among the first on the scene of a light plane crash on the corner of The Strand and Camp St in Chelsea in October last year and helped redirect traffic and provided information to arriving police and SES responders. The plane’s pilot, John Stephenson, was killed but…