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Campaign 2014B: Save the Beaumaris RSL parkland


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the logo to go to the “Save the Beaumaris RSL
and its Parkland” page.

*By 2016, the c. 1
hectare of the former Beaumaris RSL parkland
had been destroyed by its being cleared in
preparation for the 20-lot subdivision of c.
500 square metre lots that VCAT had approved
below.

*Response
by RSL Sub-branch Committee:
After the EGM resolution below,
the Committee sent a letter to
Beaumaris RSL Sub-Branch members
stating it would not lodge the
caveat sought, following legal
advice it obtained, and that the
overwhelming majority of the
Committee will resign after
sending that letter, and will ask
ANZAC House to appoint an interim
committee, or an administrator.

The Committee sent members a later
letter stating that all its
members had resigned, that the
RSL’s Victorian Branch had
appointed the Branch’s Senior
Vice-President to administer the
Sub-Branch, and to determine
options for the Branch’s future,
and to convene a general meeting
of the Sub-Branch by 14 December
2015 to consider the options
determined.

*GENERAL MEETING: An
Extraordinary General Meeting of the Beaumaris RSL
Sub-branch was held on 12 August
2015 – after the date of
settlement for the sale of the
Beaumaris RSL land – although the

members’ June letter requisitioning
it had sought a meeting on 05
July 2015, which was well before the
settlement date for that sale.

The General Meeting overwhelmingly
passed the motion on notice, which
was,
“That based on the information
provided to this meeting by Gregory
Mier (member and legal
practitioner), Beaumaris RSL
Sub-branch Inc. and any successor
thereto shall forthwith do all
things necessary to remain
situated at, open and operational in
its current location and to defend
its right to continue to do so
(including by way of lodging a caveat).”

*VCAT
appeal
by Bayside City Council and 100
other listed persons (with many
later objectors’ views also said
to be considered) supported
Council’s refusal to issue a permit
for the 21-lot proposal below, but
VCAT issued

a permit for 20 lots.

*
Beaumaris Conservation
Society Inc. supports the move
by the citizens’ group at the above
Facebook page to save the parkland
around the RSL clubhouse, which is
largely open space with lawns and
well-established trees and shrubs. It is
a pleasant outdoor venue for social
functions, and has been the site of RAAF
band recitals, for instance. The RSL
clubhouse has become a significant
social centre in a very pleasant setting
that is the only one of its type left in
Beaumaris since the demise of the Beaumaris

Hotel.

*The Beaumaris

RSL clubhouse, at 489 Balcombe Road,
Beaumaris, sits at the rear of an allotment of
c. 1 hectare in area that is – at 30 metres
above sea level – one of the highest pieces of
land in Beaumaris, with views of Port Phillip
Bay and beyond. As Blamey

House, it was a home for orphaned children
of deceased ex-service people, named after
Australia’s only Field Marshall, Sir

Thomas Blamey. A sale of the land, which
is very

controversial within the Beaumaris sub-branch,
has a settlement date in June 2015. See the
Branch’s December

2014 Newsletter.

*See

details of the issue here
on Google, the street

view from Balcombe Road, and a satellite

view of the parkland site.

*See notice of
the developer’s appeal

to VCAT, and a plan

of the 21-lot subdivision proposed. The
2-page form for lodging an objection with VCAT
can be downloaded and printed from here.
It details the names and addresses of the thrree
required recipients.

*Bayside City
Council unanimously resolved to not
support the above application for development at
its meeting on 18 November 2014 (see Item

4.6 of the agenda, which gives
the staff report, and Item

4.6 of the minutes, which shows
the unanimous resolution). The staff
report states that the proposal is for the
removal of 67 of the 75 trees on the site (89%).


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