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Surprise win: Mt Eliza downed Karingal by 10 points in Sunday’s qualifying final of the Peninsula Division of the MPNFL. Game details Page 36 and scores Page 39. Picture: Andrew Hurst
Demolition ambition By Mike Hast THE board of Andrew Kerr aged care centre has applied to demolish its 1875 Italianate mansion “Glenbank� in Barkly St, Mornington. Removal of the mansion is a key part of Andrew Kerr’s $28 million redevelopment of its site on the corner of Barkly St and Tanti Ave (‘$28m aged care centre’, The News, 1/12/11). Redevelopment plans were submitted to Mornington Peninsula Shire last November. They have since been
refined and were resubmitted in July. Andrew Kerr board chairman Lew Robbins on Monday told The News demolition of Glenbank was crucial to the project. “The future viability of Andrew Kerr depends on the redevelopment as we outlined last year,� he said. “We can’t afford to restore Glenbank, which has been changed many times over the years and knocked about.� Mr Robbins believes the board will have a fight on its hands as shire plan-
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ners have indicated little support for the project and the National Trust wants the mansion retained. “We’re prepared to go to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal,� Mr Robbins said. The board would tell the tribunal that redeveloping the site would provide net community benefit. “People don’t understand aged care until they have to find a place for their parents. Then they want the best and that’s what we want to build,� he said.
Plans include 26 two-bedroom “independent living� units in two-storey buildings facing Barkly St and Tanti Ave that would house more than 50 people. Andrew Kerr is currently home to 117 people. The Andrew Kerr Memorial Home for Children opened in 1922 and operated until 1976. In 1980 it was bought by Mornington Bush Nursing Hospital for $327,000 and converted into a centre for aged care.
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