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Strikes for change Industrial action from police continues across Victoria with Belgrave Police Station holding their walk out this week. Police members at the Belgrave police station walked off the job on Thursday 12 December for the first time in 25 years. As cars drove past the station beeping in support members stood together for 30 minutes, holding a banner reading ‘Breaking Point’. Members walked off the job united in a bid to get their employer back to the table and the walkouts have been occurring across Victoria, with Lilydale Police Station holding its walkout last week. Story page 3 On and off duty police officers from Belgrave Police Station took part in the work stoppages on Thursday 12 December. (Tanya Steele: 44989)
New solar details Residents from The Basin will have until Christmas Eve to weigh in on the proposal after an admin error left out a glint and glare report on the Engage website. A scheme amendment allowing for the development of a solar farm at a property in The Basin has extended its engagement with the public until 24 December Group commercial manager at the Salvation Army Robert Johnston said they are essentially
having the land rezoned. “The solar farm isn’t going to take up all that piece of land that’s been identified as the rezoning. It’s just that the piece that we’ve isolated for that is a smaller piece of part of that,” he said. The missed out flint and glare report has now been uploaded to the website in addition to a host of documents already there for plans for the solar farm. The amendment applies to the land at 49 Basin-Olinda Road, the Basin and proposed Basin
solar farm aims to generate electricity to offset the Salvation Army’s current on-site operations and also contribute power to the National Electricity Market (NEM). The plans detail an eight-hectare solar farm on the property, with approximately 11,000 solar panels on two to three-metre-high frames to allow the use of land underneath for sheep grazing and carbon farming. Some residents are concerned about the negative impacts on building in the paddocks, potential view obstruction and how the change
will affect the area down the line. In the long term, Mr Johnston said Salvation Army have no plans to extend the solar farm beyond the site they have selected but intends to apply to the distributed network service provider to install a battery. “The solar farm and all our on-roof solar will be more than enough to power Salvo’s sites in Victoria for as far into the future as we can realistically forecast,” he said. Read more on page 9
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