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Tuesday 19 November 2024
For all advertising and editorial needs, call 03 5974 9000 or email: team@baysidenews.com.au www.baysidenews.com.au SEAFORD resident Fiona Goodwin took part in the Frank to Schanck walk last weekend.
Frank to Schanck A GROUP of adventurers set off on a 60 kilometer trek from Frankston to Cape Schanck last Friday. They made the journey over three days, arriving at their destination on Sunday. The walk was organised by the Women’s Spirit Project. See story page 14. Pictures: Gary Sissons
More high-rise plans approved Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au APPROVAL for a 14-storey apartment building at the corner of Beach Street and Nepean Highway has been granted. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal last week gave the green light to plans to build a highrise building at 424/426 Nepean Highway. The 14-storey tower is proposed to stand roughly 45-metres tall,
and features 105 apartments, a gym, a cinema, private dining facilities, a swimming pool, and outdoor areas and landscaping. In 2018, a permit to build an 11-storey building with 63 dwellings and 46 serviced apartments was granted at the direction of VCAT. The developer did not act on the permit, which then expired in September 2023. New plans were submitted to VCAT this year after Frankston Council failed to consider them in time. Councillors later agreed that approval to build the
tower would have been granted. Frankston Council’s FMAC Structure Plan, which is awaiting final approval from the planning minister, outlines a preferred height limit of up to 41 metres in the precinct containing 424/426 Nepean Highway. VCAT’s decision read “the approved development is generally in accordance with the DDO14 [planning overlay] that currently applies to the site.” “We say ‘generally in accordance’ on the observations that the preferred height of the development is met,
however there are variations to the preferred Kananook Creek Boulevard setbacks and upper podium setbacks,” VCAT wrote. “Recent and current strategy and policy is actively seeking to facilitate development within this major activity centre. We observe that any change in planning controls will seek to facilitate development, rather than restrict development. “Great effort has been undertaken to ensure that the amended proposal before the Tribunal has obtained the approval of council and other relevant
authorities.” The developer has been given three years to commence development, and five years to complete it. Before construction begins, amended plans must be submitted to Frankston Council. The 424/426 Nepean Highway proposal is the latest of multiple highrise buildings which have been proposed along the Nepean Highway in Frankston this year. Continued page 3