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Deep end: Cr Leigh Eustace, front, Peter Greer of Mt Eliza Association For Environmental Care and Jeff Yugovic of Mt Eliza Coastcare inspect the Lew family pool allegedly built on Crown land at Mt Eliza earlier this. Mt Eliza conservationists will conduct an inspection of the pool area on Sunday after a working bee in nearby Sturio Pde. Picture: Keith Platt
Protesters’ open pool day By Mike Hast MT Eliza conservationists on Sunday morning plan to inspect the Lew family pool allegedly built on Crown land overlooking the beach near the end of Kunyung Ave. The “protest” visit has been organised by Mt Eliza Coastcare and Mt Eliza Association For Environmental Care.
People will access the Moondah Beach foreshore site from public land late morning following a working bee beside the nearby Sturio Pde path, which the shire has recently upgraded. The entrance to the property owned by billionaire clothing retailer Solomon Lew and his daughter Jacqueline Lew is near the corner of Sturio Pde and Osprey Ave.
The property, believed to be worth more than $2.5 million, is used as a holiday retreat by Jacqueline Lew and also has an indoor pool. On 8 August, Mornington Peninsula Shire ordered the demolition of the horizon pool within 21 days under the Building Act. It was drained on Friday 12 August. The shire’s municipal building sur-
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veyor reported the retaining wall of the pool and adjacent grassed area was unstable. The pool had also been built without a planning permit, the shire said. A three-week extension was granted late last month, with the new deadline 19 September, after the Lews’ engineers sent new information to the shire. Last month, the Lews approached
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the state government seeking to buy or lease the Crown land, but it is believed this has been rebuffed. In Parliament on 1 September, Mornington MP David Morris called on the government’s assistant treasurer, Gordon Rich-Phillips, to ensure no agreement was made with Solomon and Jacqueline Lew. Continued Page 14