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NOVEMBER 2011

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BCS Inc. submission
on Bayside City Council’s draft Tree
Strategy and draft Street
and Park Tree Management Policy

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29 BEACH RD: Applicant

seeks VCAT review of Bayside Council’s
rejection of 6-dwelling structure. BCS

Inc. supports Council .

SEPTEMBER 2011

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BUSHLAND RAZED: BCS

Inc. alerts Bayside City Council and Bayside
Leader to bushland vandalism
in the Landside

Reserve.

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2011

AGM:
Minutes
of this month’s 59th BCS Inc. Annual
General Meeting record Kornel
Koffsovitz as a new member of the BCS Inc. Management
Committee. See the list of
other members at that hyperlink. Kornel is
the new Secretary. The new President, Ron
Morris, succeeds Chris Sutton as President.

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FORMER BCS INC.
SECRETARY’S FUNERAL: Rose Allaway, BCS

Inc. Secretary 1999-2003,
died on 2011-09-11. Her funeral service will
be at St Michael and All
Angels Anglican Church,
Dalgetty Road, Beaumaris, at 1:30 p.m. on
Thursday 2011-09-15. Rose energized
successful opposition by BCS Inc. to a 2002
Council proposal to make most

of the Concourse Green a car park.

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3 JOHN ST: VCAT order
corrected address from 2 John St, and
overturned Council’s rejection, but varied
the original application. BCS Inc’s submission to
VCAT cites VCAT’s rejection
of the 3-dwelling proposal for 66 Reserve Rd
(north side of Hardinge St).

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6-DWELLING STRUCTURE
REJECTED: All 7 Bayside
councillors voted to refuse a
permit for this Beach Road ambit
claim.

AUGUST 2011

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Victorian

Environment Assessment Council’s Final
Report on its Melbourne Metropolitan Public
Land Investigation cites the Beaumaris Bay
Fossil Site as Melbourne’s only Geological
Site of International Significance. Its Recommendation E4
is a 3-hectare “Beaumaris

Cliffs Geological and Geomorphological
Features Area” between Charman Road
and Hutchison Avenue, from low tide mark to
the edge of Beach Road, site of a concrete

bike road plan. Pages 29 and
30 of a 2009 report

to VEAC give more details of
Beaumaris sites.

JUNE 2011

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table ROCK MORNING:
BCS

Inc. & Bayside Friends Groups joined in
a Morning at Table Rock on Saturday

25 June. See
details in handbill here.
Bird watching with Friends of
Native Wildlife and a “walk and talk” with
Bob Whiteway, instigator of the Ricketts
Point Marine Sanctuary, went well. The

First Beaumaris Sea Scouts made their boat
shed available for a barbecue that
followed.

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PARLIAMENTARY
TRANSPORT SECRETARY WALKS ROUTE: Edward O’Donohue &
VicRoads staff walked the route
with us.

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JOHN LENDERS MLC
WALKS ROUTE: Labor’s frontbench
Southern Metropolitan MLC viewed
the bicycle road route with
us.

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GEORGIE CROZIER
MLC’S SPEECH: After walking along
the roadside route with us, Ms Crozier raised
the matter in Parliament.

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GEORGIE CROZIER MLC
WALKS ROUTE: The newest Liberal
Southern Metropolitan MLC viewed
the bicycle road route with
us.

MAY 2011

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LEAFLET WARNING OF
MARINA: BCS Inc.
distributed to Beaumaris residences a
warning of the harm to Beaumaris Bay.

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FORESHORE TREES
SAVED? Bayside Council’s May
vote seeks removal
of a Beach Rd centre lane,
citing new Transport Law.

APRIL 2011

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BICYCLE ROAD PLAN: Hear

Bayside City Council publicly explain its
plan to fell over 100
foreshore trees to site bicycle road.

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FORESHORE TREE
VANDALISM: Bayside City Council
reward notice opposite
Cliff Grove marks the
latest tree vandalism.

MARCH 2011

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CALL

FOR RICKETTS POINT LANDSIDE RESERVE: We

seek volunteers to help the 6th March Clean Up
Australia Day effort.

FEBRUARY 2011

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BMYS

LTD MARINA PROPOSAL: Minister

issues Final Scoping Document
and Community and Stakeholder
Consultation Plan

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