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2007 Records

 

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DECEMBER 2007

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COMMENTS
TO COUNCIL STAFF ON BICYCLE ROAD ROUTE:

BCS
Inc. sent written comments after inspecting

the route, and a review meeting
.

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RESPONSE
TO BATHING BOX POLICY:.

Response

to Bayside
Council’s survey
on its Draft
Policy on Bathing Boxes urged their phase-
out.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD

CHARACTER REVIEW: BCS

Inc. seeks extensive Neighbourhood
Character Overlays
, not
museum piece sops.

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FINAL
2007 ISSUE OF THE

BCS
INC. BULLETIN

 

NOVEMBER 2007

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MPs
LISTENING ABOUT BICYCLE ROAD
ROUTE:
 
Murray
Thompson MLA and Sue Pennicuik MLC walked along the route
with BCS Inc. officers.

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TREES
TARGETED:
 Staff report on Keys St
car park
[Item 1.12, P.163]
seeks permit to remove healthy trees
in Vegetation Protection
Overlay.

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TREE
REMOVAL:

Report
on unadvertised Coreen
Ave
bid [Item
1.15, P 196] to remove trees recommends permit to remove 6 tea
trees
.

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NEW
PLANNING OVERLAYS:
Find out more about
Council
moves for possible Neighbourhood Character,
and Significant Landscape, Overlays.

 

OCTOBER 2007

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LIGHTING
STRATEGY:

BCS
Inc’s letter
seeks a policy of no artificial lighting in
parks or on the foreshore, except for
specific, justified cases.

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GEO-4:
Read the full UN Environment Program report
(22 MB) on Global Environment
Outlook
. Population size and
rate of increase loom large.

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BICYCLE
ROAD ROUTE OPTIONS:

Bicycle

Road page details staff
report options,
and Council’s further request for room on
the road reserve.

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SURVEY
OF VPO3 APPLICATIONS:

BCS Inc. survey of many recent applications
for vegetation removal from lots has led to
questions to
Council
.

 

SEPTEMBER 2007

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PLANNED

REMOVAL OF HEALTHY MATURE TREES:
 Objection
to this aspect
of Council’s Keys
Street
car
park restoration
it has long
neglected.

 

AUGUST 2007

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BAYSIDE

PLANNING SCHEME – CONCOURSE:
Council

meeting of 2007-08-28 received Amendment C49
report, but requested

further changes.

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TEA

HOUSE: Council on 2007-08-28
resolved to not agree to tenant’s request to
be allowed to apply for a liquor
licence
or

extended hours.

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BAYSIDE

COUNCIL’S NEW WARDS GAZETTED:
VEC’s
proposal
is approved. See P.
1785 of Victoria Government Gazette G31

of 2007-08-02.

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TEA

HOUSE: BCS Inc. President congratulates  Committee
for recommending Council decline to approve
lessee applying for
liquor
licence.

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TEA

HOUSE: Report
to Bayside
City Council
recommends
Ricketts Point Tea House be allowed to apply
for a liquor licence for part of the day.

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BUILDING

THREAT TO ROOTS: Threats to roots of
significant indigenous trees from intensive
developments: See 2 important
examples
.

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Planning application
notice for a full overdevelopment on 17 Beach Rd, Beaumaris,
next to an apparently conjoint development
for 16

Beach Rd.

 

JULY 2007

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CityWide
wisely removed a palm tree on the Foreshore
Reserve opposite 362 Beach Rd,
Black Rock. 3 other foreshore palms
need removing.

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Call for volunteer guides
at Gramatan Av
and Bay Rd Heathlands
for 2 hours on Sundays in next 2 months – no
experience needed. More.

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FORESHORE

WALK: 8th
September 2007 at 10 am, to show indigenous plants
of the
Beaumaris
foreshore
. Click
here to email
for details

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Email to buy
a $15 T-shirt with the new

BCS Inc. logo. Please specify
your size and whether you want a short or
long sleeve version.

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BCS Inc, supported by PPCC
Inc. and residents, appears at Bayside meeting
opposing Tea House liquor licence
and extended hours proposal
.

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Aerial vertical
photograph of
Beaumaris
in January 1951 from 4, 000 metres . Use up to
400% magnification to zoom in to see it as
in 1951.

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July 2007 issue
of the BCS Inc. Bulletin

 

MAY 2007

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Site for a junior
skateboard ramp: Council focuses on a
largely grassed area just north of the
football pavilion at Donald
MacDonald Reserve
.

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Application for two
dwellings on the land at 16 Beach Road
,
Beaumaris, that was Lot
7 in the original Deauville Estate

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50

Wells Road, Beaumaris,
home of John Iggulden
when founding Port Phillip Conservation
Council, has received National Trust
classification.

 

 

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