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Colourful way to fundraise The Devon Meadows Primary School Colour Run saw the school community turn out for a colourful display of energy and generosity. While both kids and adults joined in on the fun, their washing machines were also getting a work out. Story page 14
The colours were a perfect match for Imogen’s accessories. 392574 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS
Green space plea By Violet Li Communities around the Hallam Road Landfill say they want green space rather than another residential development in the vicinity, as the Cranbourne Golf Course hits the market as a potential housing estate. Located near the landfill, the 70-hectare course falls in the General Residential Zone and is said to “present a viable solution to assist the Victorian Government’s aim of providing 800,000 homes over the next 10 years”,
according to a media release in February this year. A for sale billboard outside of the course says the land has the potential to deliver between 1000 and 1300 residential dwellings, derisked from a zoning perspective. Nearby resident Dr John Theodoridis said the community would want the course to be a reserve or just a green space. “They’ve been promised green space countless times regarding the rehabilitation
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of the landfill,” he said. “It’s never been forthcoming.” The call comes amid a proposed Buffer Area Overlay planning scheme amendment for the Hallam Road Landfill in Hampton Park. But the issue of the amendment has been put on ice by the City of Casey until the EPA publishes its updated Separation Distance Guideline and Landfill Buffer Guideline. The guidelines, which the council expects to be published sometime this year, could see
the buffer for landfills accepting municipal putrescible waste with a tip face greater than 500 square metres increase from 500 metres to a maximum of 1500 metres. The distance may be varied to a minimum of 1000 metres if an odour risk assessment could show that an alternative buffer is acceptable. This has led residents to question whether a larger buffer would encompass the Cranbourne Golf Course. Continued page 3
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