Author Archives: Mike Hast

Dredge threat to Heads if port lease goes ahead

June 29, 2015
PORT Phillip Heads will have to be widened and deepened with a massive project that will make the controversial 2008-09 dredging pale into insignificance if the state government goes ahead with a 70-...

Insurance saving yields car park for Currawong

June 29, 2015
THE insurance savings in the budget have allowed Mornington Peninsula Shire to bring forward the sealing of the unmade car park at Currawong Community Centre in Mornington. The car park is number one...

New projects from budget savings

June 29, 2015
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has saved almost $700,000 by putting its insurance out to tender rather than staying with MAV Insurance, a company associated with the Municipal Association of Victoria, th...

Plan to protect Sorrento main street heritage

June 22, 2015
THE shire has released a plan it says will protect the heritage of Sorrento’s main street, Ocean Beach Rd. A draft of the Ocean Beach Road Heritage Policy is out for public comment for about six week...

Foreshore with a view to keeping fit

June 22, 2015
THE first of four fitness stations made of 100 per cent plastic waste has been installed on the Dromana foreshore. It’s a double-whammy win devised by Rob Tannahill of Dromana foreshore committee of ...

Vote on RACV resort: minister

June 22, 2015
SHIRE councillors have been told to get on with the job and vote on the RACV’s contentious Cape Schanck resort expansion. Councillors baulked at voting on the $135 million project mid-May when they g...

Disputes delay CCTV till October

June 22, 2015
THE good news of early April about improvements to street safety in Mornington has lost some of its gloss after it was revealed CCTV cameras will not be installed until October at the earliest. Feder...

Fast internet on way at last

June 22, 2015
WELL, for two lucky towns on the peninsula it will have taken only 14 years from first to final promise – a “super-fast broadband network” that will enable homes and businesses to join the “informati...

Puddle muddle

June 22, 2015
BUSINESSES using Blamey Place car park in Mornington have had enough of the winter ritual of dodging water-filled potholes and corrugations and are calling on the shire to seal it. The call comes aft...

Western Port’s ‘ex-parrot’ hit by disease

June 16, 2015
THE orange-bellied parrot wild population has been hit by a disease that can kill young birds or adults with weak immune systems. Two-thirds of 30 birds born in the wild last summer in Tasmania have ...