THE Frankston Motorcycle Park looks set to be open for summer with mid-October the likely date motocross riders will be able to return to the tracks at the park in Seaford. The motorcycle park has been closed since of the death of 25-year-old Danny Edlington in early April on the main track at the Frankston Motorcycle Park (‘Fatality closes motorcycle track’, The Times 13/4/15). Frankston Council leases the facility to the Frankston City Motor Park Incorporated club. Council has approved a new management model for the park and councillors Glenn Aitken and Colin Hampton met with club members last Sunday…
Author: Neil Walker
TONY Abbott was ousted as prime minister last week by his Liberal Party colleagues but local federal MPs Bruce Billson and Greg Hunt remained loyal to Mr Abbott until the end. Both confirmed they voted for the former prime minister in the party room ballot won by challenger Malcolm Turnbull 55-44 last Monday evening (14 September). Bruce Billson, the member for Dunkley and until Sunday, the Small Business Minister, said last week the Abbott government was “getting plenty of good things done but there wasn’t a sense that was being conveyed well and clearly to the electorate”. “We’re two years…
PART of Kingston’s Green Wedge has been earmarked as a cemetery under a controversial plan by Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust to build a “Kingston Memorial Park” in Heatherton. The Trust approached Kingston Council last week to outline its plans to buy about 130 hectares of Green Wedge land north of Old Dandenong Rd to develop the land for a cemetery and memorial park amid a looming shortage of grave sites across many of Melbourne’s existing cemeteries. SMCT manages eight burial sites including the Cheltenham Memorial Park, Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery, Springvale Botanical Cemetery and Bunurong Memorial Park. The Trust is a…
A COUNCIL plan to manage Kingston’s foreshore has been changed after state government intervention over a council attempt to “protect private bay views” from tree plantings. Mordialloc Labor MP Tim Richardson asked Environment Minister Lisa Neville to intervene after Mr Richardson became concerned that an updated Coastal Management Plan by Kingston Council submitted to the state government was at odds with state coastal strategy. Mr Richardson noted council regarded “the impact of foreshore vegetation on private bay views” as “a hot topic” and had amended its Coastal Management Plan to cease planting coastal banksia trees along Kingston’s foreshore. In parliament…
FRANKSTON Dolphins have denied the football club is in financial dire straits despite carrying about $1 million in debt to partially finance the completion of the club’s new stadium and function centre. Dolphins general manager Brett Angwin says the club, like other VFL clubs, does service a debt of $1 million but the money is used partially as “a financial investment” for the club’s new function centre as part of a $3.4 million redevelopment of the club’s ground due to officially open next Saturday (19 September) and for “ongoing operations of our club”. “We are not in any sort of…