PLANS to build homes at the Kingswood Golf Course in Dingley Village are being watched closely across the municipality as setting a potential precedent for residential developments on courses. Kingston Council has been given permission by state Labor Planning Minister Richard Wynne to start the first step of the Planning Scheme Amendment process seeking community feedback. A planning application to subdivide the golf course into 760 lots has been submitted by property fund manager ISPT. The fund manager bought the course land for $125 million in 2014. The golf club merged with the Peninsula Country Golf Club. Kingston mayor Cr…
Author: Neil Walker
Mayday before fatality A PRELIMINARY report into the fatal plane crash in Mordialloc last month has found the single-engine Cessna 172 was making its first flight since an engine replacement. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is investigating the cause of the crash that killed pilot Anthony Liddell, 50, when the plane crashed onto Scarlet Street, Mordialloc at about 5pm on Friday 8 June. The Mount Martha resident, an employee of a maintenance company, was piloting the Cessna as the sole occupant after scheduled maintenance. In its preliminary report released on 18 July, the ATSB said Mr Liddell broadcast an…
A GANG of politicians gathered at Baxter train station last week to spruik a $450 million plan to extend the electrification of the Frankston line to Baxter. The train station provided a platform on Tuesday (17 July) for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to accompany a coalition of state Liberal opposition leader Matthew Guy and Liberal federal and state politicians for the big pre-elections spending promise. The state election in Victoria will be held in November this year and a federal election must be held by November next year at the latest. Mr Turnbull told an assembled media pack that an…
A MEMORIAL to remember the three victims of the 1993 Frankston murders will be held this month amid a community-led push to now help the “unknown victim” of the murders. Jake Blair, now 25, was just 12 days old when his mother, Debbie Fream, 22, was murdered in 1993 by Paul Denyer who also killed Elizabeth Stevens, 18, and Natalie Russell, 17. In this year of the 25th anniversary of the murders, true crime book author Vikki Petraitis has updated her best-selling The Frankston Murders book to remind people of the lives lost and the ongoing impact on the victims’…
FRUSTRATED Edithvale residents are imploring Kingston Council to close a laneway to public use and misuse. South Ward councillor Tamsin Bearsley tabled a petition from “about 20 residents” in the Northcliffe Road area who are fed up with anti-social behaviour in a publicly accessible laneway impacting on neighbours. “Over the years, they’ve had a lot of issues but it seems to have been escalating in terms of this space being used for recreational drug use,” Cr Bearsley said at the latest public council meeting on 25 June. She said vandalism, graffiti and smashed bottles are a regular occurrence in the…