CRIME across Frankston has fallen 3.7 per cent but is likely to keep rising in the short term but police say this is a positive development. Figures for the 12 months to June this year released by the newly formed Crime Statistics Agency reveal overall crime in Frankston dipped slightly from 14,810 in 2013-14 to 14,365 in 2014-15, but there was a jump in intervention order breaches and stalking offences. Mornington Peninsula Police Acting Inspector Dean Clinton said many of the intervention orders relate to family violence and people are more likely to report such incidents thanks to an increased…
Author: Neil Walker
FRANKSTON mayor Cr Sandra Mayer has been appointed as an ambassador for an anti-bullying organisation despite Frankston Council itself becoming embroiled in bullying allegations earlier this year. The mayor began her role as an ambassador for the Bully Zero Australia Foundation, a group whose aim is to raise awareness of bullying in schools and the workplace, by speaking to McClelland Secondary College students last Thursday about “creating a zero-tolerance culture of bullying”. In a council media release issued last Friday, Cr Mayer vowed to “speak out against bullying”. “Bullying can be relentless and lead to very serious outcomes. We must…
FRANKSTON Council and the Labor state government are at odds over the $63 million redevelopment of the Frankston train station precinct despite councillors voting last week to endorse the Frankston Station Redevelopment Master Plan. The unanimous endorsement of the transport hub master plan was hailed as “a major step towards the revitalisation of the city centre” in an official statement issued by Frankston Council last week but many concerns raised by councillors at last Monday’s public council meeting went unmentioned in council’s statement. Councillors welcomed the investment by the state government in Frankston but decided to write to Premier Daniel…
THE impact of the China-Australia free trade agreement has not been adequately explained to local businesses according to a Braeside manufacturer. Vinyl manufacturer Armstrong World Industries believes an apparently one-sided deal on export and import levies will create an unlevel playing field for the company to win contracts to supply vinyl flooring to Australian hospitals, police stations, prisons and schools. Armstrong’s strategic marketing manager Michael Keam said it is disappointing that the company had not heard from the federal Liberal National Coalition government about the proposed China-Australia free trade agreement. “As the only manufacturer in this space we weren’t even…
A DEADLINE is looming on a decision by Planning Minister Richard Wynne to save Kingston’s Green Wedge from future landfills and tips. Council asked the Labor state government in May to approve a C143 planning amendment to rezone land outside the urban growth boundary – north of Kingston and Heatherton Rds – from a Special Use Zone allowing waste-related activities to a Green Wedge A Zone. A VCAT hearing, due to be heard on 26 October, will determine whether the Alex Fraser Group will be able to extend a permit for its concrete crushing operations in Clarinda until 2038. Councillors…