The Baillieu Government has dumped Labor's Melbourne 2030 strategy and is introducing a new plan over the next two years that will include a different residential zone system.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
“The Police Block”
| Written by Marc Pallisco |
| Monday, 14 March 2011 00:00 |
 THE Police Association has snaffled a reported $2 million from the sale of a 46.5 hectare block of land abutting the outer north-eastern township of Coldstream.The site (pictured, right), which was marketed throughout the summer by agency RT Edgar as “The Police Block”, is currently used for grazing – but is said to have attracted interest from developers, and land bankers, being on the edge of the Urban Growth Boundary. Melbourne’s UGB - a controversial invisible line dividing where builders can and can’t develop – was revised several times by the previous state government, much to the delight of developers who bought land cheap, outside the zone gambling when the government would run out of room to zone as housing, and need them. This Coldstream property, with a street address of 84 Killara Road, is arguably another of those sites. Coldstream is about 38 kilometres from the CBD, near a disused train station and a small shopping centre, The Lodge. More sophisticated amenity including schools and offices are at neighbouring Lilydale. In recent years some groups have been advocating to extend Coldstream’s boundary for the benefit of its small businesses, and so as to have enough people to support a large school. They argue that by comparison, suburbs further from the city than Coldstream, like Pakenham, in the south-east, and Melton in the west, are seeing an abundance of new development, which is improving the quality of services following people to those areas. Andrew Houghton represented The Police Association but declined to comment on any part of the campaign. |
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Butcher shop hidden in one of the world's most unappealing shopping centres
7 reasons to visit The Yarra Valley
| Author: RICHARD CORNISH Date: 12/03/2011 Words: 623 Source: AGE |
3 MEAT, MEAT, MEAT!
THE Little Creek Cattle Company is a butcher shop hidden in one of the world's most unappealing shopping centres. Ignore the architectural gloom and rejoice at grass-fed, dry-aged beef from owner Craig Jenkins's Uncle David's farm nearby. Also consider the truly excellent lamb from Killara Rise and some of the best Berkshire pork in the country from McIvor Farm Foods. The prices are reasonable for the quality of the product.
Mon to Fri 7am-6pm, Sat 7am-2pm, shop 13 North Gateway (just off the Maroondah Highway), Coldstream, 9739 0438.
The above was taken from THE AGE today.
butcher shop hidden in one of the world's most unappealing shopping centres
WHAT A WAY TO REFER TO OUR TOWNSHIP AND THE SHIRE SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF HOW WE ARE SEEN BY THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
A case for development?
Lyle, thanks for bring this to our attention.
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Weather statistics for February 2011. Coldstream
Average temperature = 18.4°C
Average humidity = 77%
Average dewpoint = 13.7°C
Average barometer = 1014.5 hPa
Average windspeed = 2.2 km/h
Average gustspeed = 4.3 km/h
Average direction = 160° (SSE)
Rainfall for month = 229.4 mm
Rainfall for year = 327.8 mm
Maximum rain per minute = 1.8 mm on day 04 at time 22:43
Maximum temperature = 39.9°C on day 01 at time 15:01
Minimum temperature = 6.2°C on day 06 at time 06:44
Maximum humidity = 97% on day 25 at time 08:19
Minimum humidity = 20% on day 01 at time 15:26
Maximum dewpoint = 23.3°C on day 04 at time 15:45
Minimum dewpoint = 4.2°C on day 06 at time 17:43
Maximum pressure = 1027.7 hPa on day 06 at time 22:15
Minimum pressure = 998.9 hPa on day 19 at time 10:00
Maximum windspeed = 24.1 kmh from 203°(SSW) on day 01 at time 15:42
Maximum gust speed = 48.1 km/h from 203°(SSW) on day 01 at time 16:09
Maximum heat index = 40.0°C on day 02 at time 16:45
Avg daily max temp :25.7°C
Avg daily min temp :12.9°C
Total windrun = 1476.2km
Daily rain totals
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05.4 mm on day 3
96.4 mm on day 4
31.2 mm on day 5
02.2 mm on day 6
02.2 mm on day 10
02.6 mm on day 11
55.4 mm on day 16
00.4 mm on day 17
16.0 mm on day 18
02.0 mm on day 20
00.2 mm on day 21
08.6 mm on day 26
03.6 mm on day 27
03.2 mm on day 28
With the February rainfall the Summer total rain (Dec-Feb) is 494.6mm.
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