HOPES that the Mentone Hotel’s pub will be the same size when it reopens appear to be fading but live music and a smaller public bar could still be an option. New owner and developer Paul Huggins has lodged a planning application with Kingston Council that shows five apartments to be built on the ground floor and seven on the first floor of the iconic building. Mr Huggins, who bought the The Edgy early this year for a figure believed to be more than $9 million, had previously said he would try to find a retail tenant to manage “a…
Author: Neil Walker
LONG-TIME Labor Party member Cr James Dooley has let his party membership lapse and has decided he can best represent Frankston as an independent councillor. The North-West Ward councillor said it is vital to be able to speak to both sides of politics to get the best possible outcomes for Frankston. “I need to be able to talk to both sides and they need to know they’re not going to be compromised when they talk to me [but] I need to be very frank and fearless in what I say and not have to worry about other agendas and all…
ANY goodwill between Frankston Labor MP Paul Edbrooke and narrowly defeated Liberal candidate for Frankston Sean Armistead has disappeared in the wake of comments made by Mr Edbrooke in Parliament. The pair had been on friendly terms in the immediate aftermath of Mr Edbrooke’s victory in last year’s state election with Mr Armistead calling the Labor man “a gentleman throughout the campaign”. When speaking about the state budget in Parliament late last month, Mr Edbrooke turned his attention to Mr Armistead’s Facebook page which, he claimed, “has more pictures of me on it than mine has”. Mr Edbrooke said Mr…
SOME of the most disadvantaged children in Frankston will get much-needed support thanks to a Communities for Children plan by Anglicare Victoria. Federal Social Affairs Minister Scott Morrison visited Frankston this month to announce the Coalition government will commit $4.9 million over five years to support Anglicare’s work to help vulnerable children thanks to Dunkley Liberal MP Bruce Billson’s “strong representations”. “Communities for Children Frankston operates within our local community to address issues of family vulnerability and violence impacting on children, through parent education, transitions, and child wellbeing programs,” Mr Billson said. “Communities for Children Frankston helps vulnerable local children…
IT is far from game, set and match for a proposed $14 million tennis centre at Centenary Park despite Frankston Tennis Club members agreeing to vacate the club’s Hastings Rd site. The club’s tennis courts are situated next to Frankston Hospital and it is expected that the next stage of the hospital’s expansion will see Peninsula Health buy the council-owned land, leased by the tennis club, by the end of the decade. Frankston Council is pushing for a regional tennis centre to be built at Centenary Park. Frankston Tennis Club would merge with Frankston East Tennis Club at the centre.…