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Port
Phillip Conservation Council Inc. |
A0020093K
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Register
of Major Campaigns |
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hyperlink below for pictures or other
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Campaigns
against repeated proposals: |
27 | The 2 Mornington marina proposals | 9 |
The 3 Sorrento marina proposals |
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Click here for
campaigns listed in descending order
by date |
The Beaumaris Marina campaign that just preceded PPCC Inc's formation |
NO. |
CAMPAIGN |
PLACE |
YEARS |
FAILURE |
PART SUCCESS |
MAJOR SUCCESS |
Removal
of foreshore vegetation above Black Rock
Point for a
car park |
Black
Rock |
1970 |
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MAJOR |
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Undersea
600 mm diameter oil pipeline |
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1970 |
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MAJOR |
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Municipal
dumping of broken concrete
slabs over beach at Black
Rock Point |
Black
Rock |
1971 |
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PART |
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Municipal
rubbish tip in foreshore gully, Harold
Street, Sandringham |
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1971 |
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MAJOR |
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Mordialloc
to Altona |
1972 |
FAILURE |
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1000
megawatt Newport Power Station |
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1972 |
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PART |
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Werribee
rock seawall & transfer
of Coastal Works from Melbourne &
Metropolitan Board of Works
to Public Works Department |
Werribee |
1973 |
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MAJOR |
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Restaurant
bid on Point Ormond knoll
[Averted by the St. Kilda (Ormond
Restaurant) Land Act 1973,
which repealed Section 5 of the St Kilda Land Act 1965] |
St.
Kilda |
1973 |
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MAJOR |
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Sorrento
marina proposals |
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1973,
1983, 1987 |
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MAJOR |
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Conversion
of two Beach Road lanes to parking and a
bicycle road |
Port
Melbourne - Mordialloc |
1974 |
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NOT
YET |
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Reshaping
of Mordialloc Creek by |
Mordialloc-Aspendale |
1977 |
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PART |
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Proposed
petrochemical plant at Point Wilson |
Point
Wilson |
1978 |
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MAJOR |
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Conservationist
representation on the Port Phillip
Authority |
Port
Phillip |
1980 |
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MAJOR |
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Proposed
boulder wall at Quiet Corner,
Black Rock |
Black
Rock |
1982 |
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MAJOR |
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Boulder
groyne at Park Street,
Brighton |
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1982 |
FAILURE |
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Proposed
Army airstrip at Swan Island |
Queenscliff |
1983 |
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MAJOR |
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Mornington
Harbour
restaurant proposal |
Mornington |
1983 |
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MAJOR |
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Hovercraft
terminals around Port Phillip |
Frankston,
Mornington, Rosebud |
1983 |
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PART |
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Averting
lease facilitation amendments to Crown
Lands (Reserves) Act |
Port
Phillip |
1984 |
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MAJOR |
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Height
limits for buildings around
Port Phillip |
Port
Phillip |
1985 |
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PART |
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60%
increase in Beaumaris Motor
Yacht Squadron bay fill,
and bay filling for nearby Keefer's Boatshed
area |
Beaumaris |
1985 |
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Marina
in addition to existing existing St. Kilda marina |
St.
Kilda |
1987 |
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MAJOR |
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Proposed
rebuilding of Keefer's Boatshed
in front of Beaumaris Cliff |
Beaumaris |
1988 |
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MAJOR |
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Participation
in reservation of Green's Bush |
Southern
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1988 |
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MAJOR |
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Williamstown
Rifle Range marina proposal |
Williamstown |
1988 |
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MAJOR |
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National Estate
Registration of
Edithvale-Chelsea-Seaford Wetlands
ID 5824 |
Edithvale,
Chelsea, |
1990 |
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MAJOR |
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Mornington
Harbour
marina
proposals |
Mornington |
1991 |
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MAJOR |
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Chemical
storage complex proposed for Point Wilson |
Point
Wilson |
1993 |
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MAJOR |
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Substituting
open pile for solid fill design: Point Wilson Naval Pier |
Point
Wilson |
1996 |
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MAJOR |
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Chemical
storage complex proposed for Point Lillias |
Avalon |
1997 |
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MAJOR |
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Marina
and bay filling proposed by Frankston
City Council at Olivers Hill |
Frankston |
1998 |
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NOT
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Removal
of large Moonah (Melaleuca lanceolata) and
part
of sand dune at St Johns Wood
Road |
Blairgowrie |
1999 |
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PART |
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"Tea
House" proposed on
Foreshore Reserve near Linacre Road |
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2000 |
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MAJOR |
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Objections
to reconstruction of unsustainable
'Bathing Boxes'
destroyed by storm |
Mt
Martha North |
2000 |
FAILURE |
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Huge
excavation for large shoreline car park at
Mid-Brighton
Baths and
large
scale of Baths redevelopment |
Mid-Brighton |
2000 |
FAILURE |
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Restitution
of Ricketts Point Marine
Sanctuary in Bill for
Marine Parks and Sanctuaries |
Beaumaris |
2001 |
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MAJOR |
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Proposal
by Port of Melbourne Corporation to
substantially deepen
all
the
main
Port Phillip shipping channels
& The Rip |
Port
Phillip |
2001 |
FAILURE |
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Appeal
to Planning Tribunal (VCAT)
to disallow Mornington Peninsula Shire's
permit to build a 0.1 ha concrete
skateboard on Rye
Foreshore Reserve |
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2003 |
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MAJOR |
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Appeal to VCAT
to disallow Mornington Peninsula Shire
Council's approval of dumping spoil from
the 'Martha Cove' excavations on rural
land |
Dromana |
2006 |
FAILURE |
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Appeal
to VCAT to disallow Mornington Peninsula
Shire Council's permit to build a
Skate
Park
on Rosebud Foreshore Reserve |
Rosebud |
2006 |
FAILURE |
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Appeal to VCAT
to disallow Frankston City Council's
permit to build a Life Saving Club and
cafe on the Seaford Foreshore Reserve |
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2006 |
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PART |
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Mornington
Peninsula Shire's permit for subdivision
of the former
Ansett
coastal land at Mt Eliza |
Mt
Eliza |
2007 |
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PART |
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Submission
against proposed full year camping at
Capel Sound foreshore |
West
Rosebud |
2008 |
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NOT
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Opposing
Frankston City Council's Appeal to VCAT
to remove its earlier prohibition of a
grease trap, as that would let the cafe
expand to a restaurant, negating the
partial success of Campaign No. 41. |
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2009 |
FAILURE |
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Opposing
application (subsequently
withdrawn) to Mornington Peninsula
Shire Council for two helipads near the Tootgarook
Wetlands |
West
Rosebud |
2010 |
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MAJOR |
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Mornington
Peninsula Shire Council
asked
to reject 2-storey foreshore
structure that Dromana Bay Life Saving
Club seeks |
Dromana |
2010 |
FAILURE |
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47 | Saving
Rosebud from losing 1.3 hectares of its
foreshore for a Southern
Peninsula Aquatic Centre by an inland
site being sought |
Rosebud | 2012 | MAJOR |
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This page was last updated on
2014-12-06. Campaigns shown in green are still
unresolved at that date.