MPs lobbied to slow speedsters
STATE MPs are being asked to back moves to have uniform speed limits on all the Mornington Peninsula roads. Cr David Gill says a piecemeal approach to speed limits sees 80kph in some sealed roads whi...
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Rangers impose rules at small beach
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire rangers have their sights well and truly set on stopping dogs and their owners using a small beach at Mt Martha. The strip of sand less than 100 paces long has been visited...
Expert called in over CEO’s job
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire councillors are hiring a consultant to help review the performance and pay of CEO Carl Cowie. The “suitably qualified and experienced consultant” is scheduled to start work...
Sediment ‘a threat to estuary’
UNMADE roads are being blamed for the increasing sediment in the Balcombe Creek estuary at Mt Martha. The environment group BERG Mt Martha says “analysts” recorded 14 tonnes of sediment flowing into ...
Call for beach boxes to go
COASTAL protection works being designed to protect cliffs and the Esplanade at Mt Martha North Beach have revived calls for the permanent removal of beach boxes. Port Phillip Conservation Council say...
Sales high and dry for undersea farmers
THEY may be out of sight and hard to access, but the produce from hundreds of hectares devoted to undersea farming off the Mornington Peninsula have retail outlets in very public places: car parks. P...
Shire seeks ‘key actions’ for climate change
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire is choosing five “key actions” after joining the Australia-wide Climate Council’s Cities Power Partnership. The shire’s membership was announced at a ceremony in Lismore, N...
Shire holiday break permanent
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has now officially “transitioned” out of running school holiday programs. Licences held by the shire with the Department of Education and Training will be transferred to co...
Opening the books on shire ‘gifts’
THE public is finally being given free access to a register of gifts and benefits received by Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors and council staff. The information was previously only available t...
Public to meet over The Pillars
AUTHORITIES are still struggling to find ways of reducing anti-social behaviour at what has become a major tourist attraction – The Pillars, off the Esplanade between Mt Martha and Safety Beach. The ...
