Parks tightens reins on moorings
BOAT owners on the southern peninsula say Parks Victoria has a tough new new stance on private moorings.
The authority has taped Directions to Move notices on boats which it identifies as being illegally moored off camping grounds from Safety Beach to Rye.
The notices warn the boats are “illegally installed in a local port without a permit from Parks Victoria and [are] in breach of regulations”.
The owners are told to remove the boats and moorings or risk Parks issuing fines, impounding their boats, or possibly “commencing court proceedings against you”.
Parks began issuing the notices on 24 February and gave owners until 10 March to comply.
Boat ramps high on minister’s agenda
Picture: Yanni
THE state government is being urged to hurry up its takeover of managing Mornington Peninsula’s boat launching ramps.
It is believed the state of the boat ramps was high on the agenda during a recent meeting between Fishing and Boating Minister Melissa Horne and shire CEO John Baker.
In the lead-up to the 2018 election the state government promised to “embark on the biggest reforms to the way that boating infrastructure is managed that Victoria has ever seen [by] fixing boat ramps, abolishing boat ramp parking and launching fees, and reforming boat ramp management in Port Phillip and Western Port”.
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