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Bayside

City Council resolved on 13 September
2005 to investigate

sites
for a skateboard ramp other than the
three below now ruled out.

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interest.

Balcombe Park bushland:

Bayside Council report
sought to clear 850 square metres of
this for a concrete skateboard ramp.

*
Council abandoned
its first skateboard ramp choice, Beaumaris
Reserve, after a petition by 400
people. A petition by 1,140 opposed
its 2nd choice, the Concourse
Green.

* Council then held a
survey of residents on its 1st and 2nd
choices, and a 3rd – Balcombe
Park
bushland.
Of the 1,554 replies, 53% preferred
one of two sites other than Balcombe
Park
(Melway 86C5).
That absolute majority of residents not
wanting the ramp there split between Beaumaris Reserve (41
percentage points) & the Concourse
Green (12 percentage
points). A Council committee, addressed by
the BCS Inc. Secretary,
voted 7-1 for the Beaumaris
Reserve site. Thank you, Cr
Derek Wilson,
who led the move to save Balcombe
Park.

* Balcombe Park is one
of only four Beaumaris places with
VPO2 overlay bushland.
Siting
there would have cleared 850
m² (1 typical house lot) of that,
despite its Management Plan.
The other sites have the very much
more common VPO3 overlay.

* Council
abandoned the 3 sites it previously
concentrated on. It then sought
comments on using the south-west car
park on Beaumaris
Reserve, or some other site. Ultimately, the
ramp was built on a secluded site
at the western end of Donald
MacDonald, Reserve.

Report
of Residents’ PUBLIC
MEETING on 1st September
2005

Beaumaris Conservation
Society Inc. has strongly opposed the
possible

degradation of any Balcombe
Park bushland,
or the Concourse
Green.