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YOUR 2015 CALENDAR: Tim

Flannery and others
to talk here
about Beaumaris
Bay Fossil Site
on Sunday, 22
February 2015

DECEMBER 2014
*BMYS

OPEN DAY: Motor Yacht Squadron’s Open Day to explain
its marina proposal, on Sunday, 01
February 2015, 10 am – 2 pm

*NEIGHBOURING
GROUPS SUPPORT FOSSIL SITE:
Bayside Leader
reports

on support that nearby
conservation groups, from
Sandringham to Mordialloc, are
giving to Museum Victoria
in its longstanding work
to stress the site’s international
importance.

*5-MILLION-YEAR-OLD SEA
TURTLE FOSSIL: 
Read

of the discovery of this
significant fossil at the Beaumaris
Bay Fossil Site.

*CAMPAIGN

2014B: BCS Inc. supports the
Beaumaris citizens’ campaign to save

the Beaumaris RSL parkland.

*FORESHORE BUSHLAND
CLEARING:
Bsyside

Council application to remove bushland
to relocate the Charman-Cromer clifftop

path

NOVEMBER 2014
*
STATE
ELECTION CANDIDATE STATEMENTS:

Click here
for marina proposal statements by the 4
candidates for Sandringham
District, here
for their petition comments, and here for

their how-to-vote cards. The Liberal
won, and the 2-party-preferred

count showed 11.8% of those that
did not put him first nevertheless put
him ahead of Labor, despite each of the
non-Liberal cards putting him last.

*BEAUMARIS RSL

SITE: BCS Inc. will act in a
VCAT review of a plan

for 21 allotments on the 1.1
hectare property (averaging
c. 500 sq. metres or less)
at 489 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris, that
was once
Blamey

House, named after the only

Australian Field Marshall.

OCTOBER 2014
*FINAL

DRAFT COAST MANAGEMENT PLAN: BCS Inc.
objects
to extra
‘high
volume

walking path’ along Bayside’s entire
coast.

*BMYS LTD. NEWS ON
ITS WEBSITE:
The company has
published its latest

news on its marina proposal, as
at September 2014.

SEPTEMBER 2014
*ONLINE

PETITION TO SAVE BEAUMARIS BAY FROM A
MARINA:
Consider

signing

the petition, and perhaps comment
also.

*BEAUMARIS

HOTEL: At
VCAT
, BCS Inc. supported Council’s
refusal, but the 1888 Hotel’s demolition
is now almost complete.

*ANNUAL

GENERAL MEETING: The

62nd

AGM elected new Office-bearers.
See the President’s

Annual Report.

AUGUST 2014
*NATURE

STRIP PLANTING POLICY: BCS

Inc. supports
Bayside City Council’s draft policy on
indigenous plantings.

*BMYS

LTD. DEFENDS MARINA PLAN: The Age
reports

on
BMYS’s

controversial  plan for its
private marina in Beaumaris Bay
.

*MARINA

OPPOSED: A
Bayside Leader article

reports on BCS Inc’s opposition to
the marina threat to Beaumaris Bay.

*INVESTIGATION

OF MARINA PROPOSAL: Interim

and final reports received from
BCS Inc’s 2013 AGM Guest Speaker.

JUNE 2014
*BCS

INC. QUOTED: A
major article in The

Sunday Age on new planning
zones quotes Chris Sutton, his BCS work,
and a photo.

MAY 2014
*CONCERNS

OVER COAST PLAN: BCS

Inc. response to Bayside’s

Plan criticizes emphasis on
‘facilities’, rather than
conservation.

APRIL 2014
*COAST

MANAGEMENT PLAN: Council

seeks comment
on its draft Coast

Plan, to enquiries@bayside.vic.gov.au
by 2 May 2014.

*PRIVATE

WORKS ON LANDSIDE RESERVE: Council

committee approves
application
to fell 11 trees and
conduct works here.

*GRAVEL

& KERBS ON BEAUMARIS RESERVE: Council

to needlessly gravel

and kerb well-drained durable
sandy areas here.

MARCH 2014
*MMBW

1954 PLAN: The

Age reports
on, and links to, a short film the MMBW
made for its first plan for the
Melbourne metropolis.

*RICKETTS

POINT LANDSIDE: Bayside

Council letter has plan for timber
bollards to protect Landside Reserve from

vehicles.

*RICKETTS

POINT LANDSIDE: Helpers needed
for Clean Up Australia Day, 10:30 –
12:30, Sunday 2 March 2014. Details here.


FEBRUARY 2014
*
EXTRA
USE OF YACHT CLUB BUILDING:
Council

seeks

views on site, or online. If the
Club activities are contracting,
perpetuating its building – which has
concrete cancer – is not necessarily
desirable. Including additional
non-water-dependent uses, possibly by
rebuilding it higher, would contravene
the Hierarchy
of Principles
of the Victorian
Coastal Strategy, as marine

research and education does not
need a foreshore site. Beaumaris

Campus site awaits renewal works,
it has much more land area, and MESAC
there would better match its educational
purpose. Peak visitor use in school
holidays would be better there than on
the crowded foreshore.
 

 

Public transport in Beaumaris passes the
Beaumaris Campus, but not the Beaumaris
Yacht Club. Bus

routes 822 and 925 together
provide access to the Beaumaris Campus
site from each of Sandringham,
Cheltenham and Mentone railway stations.

 

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