Cinema screen lights up reserve Share
NEARLY 4000 people enjoyed a night at the outdoor cinema at Sir William Fry Reserve last month.
The outdoor cinema ran on eight nights, showing classics like The Fast and the Furious, Breakfast Club, and Dirty Dancing.
The event raised almost $2,000 for the Kingston Charitable Fund, which supports local charities and community groups.
The events featured live performers and food vendors. A statement from Kingston Council, which ran the event, read “it was the first time Kingston had run an outdoor cinema event and proved hugely popular with locals with many ticketholders expressing their support and appreciation.”
Councillors signal concern over stabling
IN the wake of a decision to turn land in Heatherton into train stabling, Kingston Council will consider writing to the state government to declare the preservation of the Green Wedge and the Chain of Parks project as “fundamentally important to Kingston’s community”.
At the end of last year the former Delta site on Kingston Road, Heatherton, was acquired by the state government for use as stabling for the Suburban Rail Loop. Council had earmarked the land for its Chain of Parks project – to be used as a regional sporting facility (“Stabling planned for potential park space”,
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BUILDING MODERN MELBOURNE
These decisions belong with government bodies
Why should a private corporation, such as Melbourne Airport, have the planning power to stop development because they don’t want curfews or pushback from resident groups (‘‘Airport chiefs eye flight path veto’’,
The Age, 18/1)?
Planning decisions should remain the responsibility of state and local government entities.
As for the reported 20 noise complaints a month, that it is a huge number, because once a resident has registered a noise complaint, their next complaint is not counted again, so this translates to at least 240 new complainants each year.
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A new underground rail line through Melbourneâs south-east â stage one of Laborâs Suburban Rail Loop â will scupper plans for a series of new parks that
the Andrews government committed $25 million towards just two years ago.
The huge new train line, the most expensive transport project in Victorian history, will also permanently reduce the size of a number of existing parks along its route.
Heatherton locals have campaigned for over two decades for a park on land that is now set to be used for a train line and train stabling.
Credit:Jason South
The first detailed documents of where the $50 billion rail lineâs 26-kilometre first stage will run were released on December 21, the same day Premier Daniel Andrews released the final report of an inquiry into mistakes made in Victoria s hotel quarantine program.