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NOVEMBER 2004

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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.

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A
petition against locating the proposed skateboard
ramp on the Concourse Green can be
signed on Saturday mornings at South Concourse.

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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

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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

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Zoning

of Concourse Green to Public Park & Recreation
Zone proclaimed
in Victoria Government Gazette of
23rd September 2004 DOES NOT STOP THE CONCRETING PLAN

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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Letter

to Bayside Council
opposing proposal for a timber stairway down
Beaumaris Cliff near the existing roadway access to
Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron lease

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Letter

to Bayside Council
informing it of the unacceptability of any part of
Donald MacDonald Reserve being used for a BMX
bicycle track

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BCS

Inc. supports Bayside
Council’s proposed regeneration burn for heathland in Donald
MacDonald Reserve, as recommended by Council’s
qualified botanical staff.

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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

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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

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 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.