2004 Records
NOVEMBER 2004
Concourse Structure Plan: Bayside City Council invites written comments by 31st December 2004 – Note Section 5.4 extols the Concourse Green, but is silent about skateboards.
A petition against locating the proposed skateboard ramp on the Concourse Green can be signed on Saturday mornings at South Concourse.
Beaumaris Hotel: 2-storey dwellings to replace car parks, converting hotel to flats, replacing 1960s accretions with rebuilt original façade, underground car park for 75 cars
OCTOBER 2004
Further infestation, at Table Rock, of the South African bulb Sparaxis elegans. This has occurred 12 months after the earlier, still uneradicated outbreak was reported.
SEPTEMBER 2004
Minutes of the 52nd Annual General Meeting of the Beaumaris Conservation Society, in 2004
Zoning of Concourse Green to Public Park & Recreation Zone proclaimed in Victoria Government Gazette of 23rd September 2004 DOES NOT STOP THE CONCRETING PLAN
Bayside Council’s General Committee voted on 20th September to approve the plan for part of the Concourse Green to be concreted for a Skateboard Ramp
Open Days at Gramatan Avenue & Bay Road Heathland Reserves &, on Saturday, 9th October 2004, from 9:30 a.m. to noon, at The Grange Heathland Reserve. See Heathlands
AUGUST 2004
Workshop on Boating Coastal Action Plan by Central Coastal Board on Thursday, 12th August 2004, from 6-8 p.m. at Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron
JUNE 2004
Bayside Council applauded for removing ugly steel poles from nature strip next to the Concourse Green, & asked to keep the view of the Concourse Green free of clutter.
Independent Panel’s Report on Amendment C35 to Planning Scheme to give Concourse Green a Park & Recreation Zone status: Council to debate report on 21/6/2004
MAY 2004
Congratulations to Bayside City Council for rejecting, by a 7-2 vote, the proposal to sell, and allow to have fenced off, the treed part of the Holding Street road verge.
MARCH 2004
Letter to Bayside Council opposing proposal for a timber stairway down Beaumaris Cliff near the existing roadway access to Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron lease
Letter to Bayside Council informing it of the unacceptability of any part of Donald MacDonald Reserve being used for a BMX bicycle track
BCS Inc. supports Bayside Council’s proposed regeneration burn for heathland in Donald MacDonald Reserve, as recommended by Council’s qualified botanical staff.
Letter to Bayside Council stating the main concern about a proposed skateboard facility in Beaumaris Reserve that it should involve no loss of indigenous vegetation
Please make a note in your diary now that Clean Up Australia Day will be Sunday, 7th March 2004. Clean up between 10 a.m. and 12 noon at Ricketts Point Landside, directly opposite the Tea-house. Please wear a hat, sensible shoes, sunscreen and gardening gloves. Ring Sue Raverty on 9589 2103 for any information.
JANUARY 2004
BCS Inc. has written to Bayside City Council opposing a proposal to sell part of the treed nature strip of Holding Street at the High Street corner.
Click here to visit the Web site of Port Phillip Conservation Council Inc.