Without consultation and ignoring reports they commissioned themselves, the State Government extended Cape Paterson’s Northern Boundary.
This means the area north of Seaward Drive is open to MASSIVE overdevelopment. Currently there is a proposal for the addition of over 900 new houses, more than doubling the current size of Cape Paterson. It’s just too much.
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NORTHERN DEVELOPMENTOn 18 December2024 the Victorian State Government released a revised proposed ‘Protected Settlement Boundary’ (PSB) for Cape Paterson, no longer including the farming land north of Seaward Drive.
The draft final Bass Coast Statement of Planning Policy was released in June with this boundary. Once endorsed by responsible agencies it will published in the Government Gazette.
This reduced boundary is what our community has been campaigning for so strongly and for so long. Thanks to those who added your voice to those that agree with this decision to revise the boundary back.
a profile of Jane and Kit Fennessy, dates for your diary, have your say on the Council budget, notes on meetings with BCSC staff and Cr Meg Edwards, and weeds to watch and working bees
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Our next Working Bee will be
This is an "out of session" working bee in association with Birdlife Australia. We will be pulling sea spurge to help protect our precious Hooded Plovers. If you are attending please email your RSVP finn.saurine@birdlife.org.au . This will help with estimating catering numbers.
Coal Creek Estuary / Wreck Beach Car Park, Harmers Haven at 9:30. Working bee will go till 12:30
Please wear clothes suitable for wintry conditions. Check the weather forecast for potentially squally conditions. Gloves and trowels will be available but if you prefer, please feel free to bring your own. CPRRA will provide lunch at conclusion of the working bee.
Cool, rainy days follow misty mornings.
The time of highest rainfall and lowest temperatures.
Waring (wombats) emerge to bask and graze in the sunshine.
Bulen-bulen (Superb Lyrebird) males perform their courtship displays.
Hearts of Kombadik (Soft Tree-ferns) are the major food when no fruits are available.
Days are short and nights are long.
The constellation of Sagittarius rises in the southeast after sunset, indicating the mid-point of cold weather.
'Wumangurruditj, that's wombat.Put a piece of wombat, a piece of pork and a piece of porcupine [echidna] and you can't tell the difference.' Jessie Hunter, 1999
