THE jobs tap will finally be turned on at South East Water’s new head office in Frankston four years after the water utility company agreed to make the move to a new Nepean Hwy building alongside Kananook Creek. The company’s new towering eight-storey 25-metre high office building on Frankston’s waterfront will officially open for business on Monday (14 September). Frankston Council controversially ignored its own building height restrictions and fast-tracked its planning process without architect plans in 2011 to lure South East Water to Frankston amid competition from the Kingston and Dandenong areas. Some councillors, including those who voted to…
Author: Neil Walker
THE remains of the former Ambassador Hotel function centre in Frankston sold at auction for $2.24 million at a mortgagee auction last week. Developer Harry Matsoukas was the last man to put his hand up at the auction last Thursday (10 September) to buy the derelict function centre after bids began at $2 million in the forced sale. Former site owner Joanna Kordos, the latest in a line of owners, had borrowed money from the Jadig Group to buy the Ambassador function centre and planned to build 37 “luxury apartments” at the 325 Nepean Hwy address. The Times understands mortgagee…
LABOR has refused to confirm whether electorate officers were seconded to work on election campaigns at Frankston, Carrum and Mordialloc before the state election last year amid allegations taxpayers’ money was misused to pay for election campaigning. Three unnamed Victorian Labor MPs and a party official told the Herald Sun last week they feared parliamentary rules banning the use of electorate office funds for political campaigning had been broken. The Labor insiders said electorate staff had allegedly been “pooled” from Labor Upper House MPs electorate staff to work on the party’s Community Action Network field campaign aimed at winning government.…
KINGSTON’S Green Wedge still faces the prospect of being used as a waste hub for metropolitan Melbourne despite Kingston Council opposing any such move. A Statewide Waste and Resource Recovery Infrastructure Plan (SWRRIP) released by the state government in June has again named Clayton and Dingley as potential locations for a waste hub. Kingston councillors highlighted the risk at the latest public council meeting late last month and have urged Labor Planning Minister Richard Wynne and Environment Minister Lisa Neville to amend the plan to remove any mention of Kingston’s Green Wedge being used as a waste hub. Council wants…
A LONGISH time ago, in an apartment not so far, far away two Edithvale sisters, Alyce and Hayley Adams, decided to turn their obsession with pop culture into a series of online short films paying homage to the movies and TV shows they adore. The result is their i can’t even comedy series poking fun at fans’ passion for the likes of Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Twilight. The two main characters Em, played by Louise Cox, and Lex, played by Tiana Hogben, act as proxies for the sisters’ own at times divergent views on pop culture…