Last Friday 400 Darebin locals gathered at a town hall meeting to discuss the future of Preston Market. Preston and its surrounds are gentrifying and development is running hot. Preston Market is a hub and part of the living heritage of this multicultural and key migrant hub in Melbourne's metropolitan north.
On accepting the chain of office of Deputy Mayor and Vice-Chairman at Hailsham Town Council's Annual Meeting held on Wednesday [17 May], Councillor Anne Marie Ricketts said that her vision is for a town that isn't overdeveloped, one which will maintain a healthy environment and one where disabled people are not overlooked.