THE long-mooted Mordialloc bypass is expected to be built by 2021 after the state government announced $300 million for the project in the 2017-18 state budget unveiled on Tuesday (2 May). A 9-kilometre road will be built between Springvale Rd in Aspendale Gardens and the Dingley Bypass in Clayton South to ease congestion in the south east. The new Mordialloc bypass will link up with the existing Mornington Peninsula Freeway in a bid to prevent traffic jams and delays in peak hour traffic. Mordialloc Labor MP Tim Richardson welcomed the funding for the bypass. “I am so proud that the…
Author: Neil Walker
TRUSTEES behind a proposal to subdivide and sell off part of Cruden Farm have been given qualified support from Liberal MP Neale Burgess. Mr Burgess attended a 21 April community meeting held by the Friends of Langwarrin Outdoors and Waterways, opponents of any attempt to rezone and sell 15.8 hectares of land at Cruden Farm (“Fears Cruden Farm homes plan will ‘impact wildlife’”, The Times 24/4/17). “Those on the trust are good people,” Mr Burgess, whose electorate includes Cruden Farm, told The Times last week. “They are trying to fulfil their obligations under the trust to look after Cruden Farm.…
NEGOTIATIONS over a lease for the Frankston Basketball Stadium in Seaford remain deadlocked in the wake of a march by about 500 people demanding Frankston Council rethink a controversial rent proposal. Marchers demonstrated disquiet on Monday 10 April over council’s plan to raise annual rent paid by the Frankston & District Basketball Association from $30,000 to about $130,000 after a $12.7 million first stage upgrade of the stadium. It is understood that council and the association are now looking at annual lease payments of about $60,000 each year plus an additional $20,000 after stage one works to install four new…
A COMPREHENSIVE environmental study will be carried out to investigate whether rail under road can be built along the Frankston line at Bonbeach and Edithvale as part of the state government’s level crossings removal project. The Level Crossing Removal Authority confirmed this month that state Labor Planning Minister Richard Wynne decided an Environmental Effects Statement (EES) is needed to determine whether the neighbouring Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands will suffer if rail trenches are dug to remove level crossings at Bonbeach and Edithvale. The state government initially announced in February that elevated rail, dubbed sky rail by opponents of raised rail, would not…
OPPOSITION to a proposal to subdivide part of Cruden Farm for residential development is growing. State Liberal MP Neale Burgess, whose Hastings electorate includes Cruden Farm in Langwarrin, attended a community meeting on Friday evening (21 April) to hear feedback about the plan. The estate was the home of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch until her death in 2012 at the age of 103. The estate’s trustees now want to sell 15.8 hectares of land at Cruden Farm — about a third of the total estate — so 116 homes can be built on the eastern and southern parts of the estate.…