Ranges Trader
Uber takes action on problem road in Olinda
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Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
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Local business owner tackles Dry July fundraiser
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Joint effort to provide 24/7 defib By Tanya Faulkner Several community groups have got together in a collaboration that will improve the well-being of the wider Ferntree Gully community. The Ferntree Gully CFA, in collaboration with the Ferntree Gully Traders Association and the Ferntree Gully Community Bank Branch of Bendigo Bank have got together to install the municipality’s first 24/7 defibrillator outside the Ferntree Gully CFA building. The project has been months in the making between the three groups, and has now come to fruition. Read more on page 5
Graham Crichton (Ferntree Gully Fire Brigade), Jeni McLean (President Ferntree Gully Traders Association) and Tina Doran (Branch Manager at Ferntree Gully Community Bank Branch of Bendigo Bank) officially welcome their new 24/7 defibrillator to Ferntree Gully 344730
Council in court By Tyler Wright Yarra Ranges Council has been taken to court over its Urban Design Framework plan for Monbulk and its decision to close meetings to the public gallery. On Tuesday 4 July, plaintiff Darren Dickson, who spoke on behalf of residents in the Yarra
Ranges, attended a Supreme Court hearing alongside a lawyer representing the council. Mr Dickson is seeking an injunction to prevent the council implementing its Draft Monbulk Urban Design Framework which sets out principles for the future development of the area. “So as to open the community engagement process in a meaningful way for an additional
12 months due to drastic changes to the community based on a failure to engage the community as legislated within Part III Local Government Act 2020 and relevant policies,” Mr Dickson’s summons read. “I’d also like to extend the hand of communication, as we have in the past, to council, if they’d like to work this out,” Mr Dickson told
Justice Melinda Richards at the virtual hearing. “Another reason we’ve been forced to come to court is because council refuse to talk to us.” In December 2022, councillors voted to exhibit the draft framework until 12 March 2023, two weeks after the original deadline of 26 February 2023. Continued page 2
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