A BOARDWALK in Seaford has been recognised for its “outstanding” design walking away with an Award of Excellence for architecture this month. The McCulloch Ave boardwalk, designed by Brunswick-based firm Site Office, took out the top gong at the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects’ Victorian Landscape Architecture Awards. “While modest in scope and budget, the McCulloch Avenue boardwalk in Seaford is a fine example of high-quality public infrastructure,” the jury panel noted. “It demonstrates how infrastructure can respond to environmental complexities, provide a high-quality user experience, and create an elegant design response. “The project’s apparent simplicity at first glance belies…
Author: Neil Walker
DEVELOPERS who want to build apartments and retail buildings in Frankston in future may have to pay money to council for car parking spaces elsewhere if they are unable to provide enough parking on site. Councillors at this month’s public council meeting decided to push ahead with plans to charge developers $19,500 car park space to be built elsewhere in future if land restrictions at a development site make it impossible to include parking spaces required under Frankston Planning Scheme regulations. Cr Colin Hampton said council regularly was forced to waive any requirement for a minimum number of car park…
OVARIAN and gynaecological cancers can be tough to talk about and tackle but Karen Livingstone hopes more lives can be saved by bringing the subject out into the open. The 50-year-old Mentone resident is the CEO of Ovarian Cancer Australia, a cancer charity focused on raising awareness of gynaecological cancers and funding medical research, and co-founded the organisation with sister Nicole Livingstone, the former Olympics swimmer and now TV and radio sports presenter. Karen’s leadership in improving outcomes for women diagnosed with gynaecological cancers was recognised this month with the award of this year’s Jeannie Ferris Cancer Australia Recognition Award.…
A COMMITMENT to climate science by incoming Industry, Innovation and Science Minister Greg Hunt has failed to ease union fears about jobs and research cuts at the CSIRO including climate change modelling reductions at laboratories in Aspendale. Mr Hunt’s pledge last week to order the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation to “renew its focus” on climate science – months after a global outcry from scientists when the Australian science body’s CEO Larry Marshall announced a move away from climate change research to concentrate make climate science “a bedrock function” – was seen as a backflip on previous Abbott government…
THE fallout from a councillor conduct panel hearing shows no sign of ending. Cr Colin Hampton, who was ordered by the panel to formally apologise to two council employees about the way he spoke to them at a public event, has signalled his intention to complain to the Press Council about press coverage of the saga. The deputy mayor tabled letters of apology at this month’s public council meeting to the two council officers who complained about his behaviour at a function to promote the $80 million Allure Bayside apartment project at The Deck bar in Frankston in November last…