SUMMARY:
Much of the water catchment area
around Port
Phillip
is covered with residential, commercial, industrial,
or other
development.
Very little land near Port Phillip is close to its
original state or
pastoral
land. Authorities managing land should retain all
remnant open space
over
one square kilometre within one kilometre of the
coast as permanent
open
space, in addition to that already permanently
reserved for
conservation
or recreation purposes. Undeveloped land is all that
prevents Port
Phillip
becoming merely an urban lagoon. Authorities should
restrict
development
of open space beyond that distance so that
development does not
significantly
degrade the Port Phillip environment. Controls
should be by public
acquisition
if necessary. Key sites are listed below.
DETAIL:
The highest priorities for
permanent retention,
by statutory
protection, or by public acquisition of freehold
or development rights
if necessary, of large areas of unreserved or
partly reserved open
space
land, including wetlands, abutting Port Phillip or
whose development
would
harm the Port Phillip environment, are as follows:
- The open space land
bounded by
the northern boundary of the Mount Eliza
Business College, Kunyung
Road,
a straight line along Albatross Avenue to
Gunyong Creek, Gunyong
Creek, Nepean Highway, the western
boundary
of the Mornington Country Golf Club, Caraar
Creek Lane, and
the
coastline of Port Phillip.
- The
open space land
bounded by
Queen Street, Altona; the rear boundaries of
freehold lots on Maidstone
Street, Altona; the coastline of Port Phillip,
the eastern boundary of
the main Geelong Grammar School site on the
western side of Limeburners
Bay, and a line from there back to Queen Street,
Altona, that is one
kilometre
inland from the Port Phillip coast, together
with the parts of the Point
Cook
Airfield outside that area, and RAAF
Lake
and the open space
between it and the roads
nearest it, and the Truganina Swamp and adjacent
Mebourne Water
Drainage
Basin.
- The open
space land
within one
kilometre of the Swan Bay coast, together with
the whole of Swan Island
and each of the other islands, Duck, Sand,
Mangrove and Tip, having
some
of their coastline as part of Swan Bay.
- The open space land
within one
kilometre of the coast of Port Phillip between
Eastern Beach Reserve,
Geelong,
and Point Richards, Portarlington, together with
the open space land
between
the Geelong-Portarlington Road east of Clifton
Springs and the Port
Phillip
coastline that is visible from any point on that
part of Port Phillip
Bay
adjacent to that coastline and up to one
kilometre from it.
- The open
space land
within one
kilometre of the coast of Port Phillip between
Nelson Place,
Williamstown,
and the western boundary of the W. G. Cresser
Reserve, Altona, together
with the open space on either side of the
Kororoit Creek and the
adjacent
Cherry Lake, Altona, and its associated
Reserve and Conservation
Area.
- The open
space
land called “Tootgarook Swamp”, some 340
hectares of freehold
dune and marshland, with much indigenous flora
and fauna, on the north
side of Browns Road, Boneo, and the east side of
Truemans Road, from
which
Chinaman’s Creek, which enters Port Phillip at
Rosebud West, gains much
of its water.
ADOPTION:
This Revision No. 1 of PPCC Inc.
Policy Statement
No.
12 was adopted by a General Meeting of Port
Phillip Conservation Council Inc. on 23rd
October 2003. |