Written Statements Special Meeting of Council 17 December 2020
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WRITTEN STATEMENTS SPECIAL MEETING OF COUNCIL 17 DECEMBER 2020 Page 1 | 188 * There were no Written Statements received for the Reports by the Organisation section of the agenda (items 4.1 to 4.13) Item 6.1 Notice of Motion – 305 – Reconsideration of Elsternwick Park Oval 4 – reconstruction, lighting and pavilion (page 5 1. Ms Caitlin Jones 2. Ms Carroll Peko nee Williams 3. Ms Hayley McKee 4. Dr Kate Dempsey 5. Dr Philip Popham 6. Mrs Judy Farrugia 7. Mr Christopher Taylor 8. Mr Mark Duggan 9. Mr Antony Hancock 10. Ms Amanda Levi (on behalf of Bayside Dog Alliance) 11. Ms Sanchia Hovey 12. Ms Felicity Frederico OAM 13. Ms Shejuti Khan 14. Mr Md Azharul Islam 15. Ms Dianne Anderson 16. Mr Arthur Roberts 17. Mr Greg Smith 18. Mr Chris Mayr 19. Dr Harry Gibbs 20. Mr Robert Foster 21. Mr Nick Macmillan 22. Mr Daniel Happell 23. Ms Alicia Duarte 24. Ms Alison Joseph 25. Ms Gail Stainton 26. Mr Marc Gibson 27. Mr David Richards (on behalf of Beaumaris Soccer Club) 28. Mrs Joanne Gibbs 29. Ms Karen Kimber 30. Mr Peter Coon 31. Mrs Emma Peck 32. Mr Hugh Peck 33. Mr Bruce Maclaren 34. Mr Bill Kerr 35. Mrs Jenni Brahe 36. Ms Jennifer Bishop 37. Ms Ed Vitali 38. Mr Garrick Rollason 39. Mr David Torrens (on behalf of Cluden Cricket Club and Brighton Soccer Club) 40. Ms Mary Ann Oakley Page 2 | 188 41. Ms Bridget Sweetapple 42. Mr Peter Hodgson 43. Mrs Pam Kay 44. Mr Josh Verlin 45. Mr Marcus Leonard (on behalf of Cluden Cricket Club 46. Mr Kevin Howard 47. Ms Stavroula Pstonis 48. Mrs Nicola McCormack 49. Mr Cameron McCormack 50. Miss Lucy McCormack 51. Mr Angus McCormack 52. Mr Mark Gagiero 53. Mr Arron Wood (on behalf of Elsternwick Park Association) 54. Mr David Lee (on behalf of East Brighton Vampires Football/Netball Club) 55. Mr Darren Edgell 56. Mrs Juliana Edgell 57. Ms Kate Redfern 58. Dr Bridget Laging 59. Ms Kate Brereton 60. Ms Elizabeth Le Fanu 61. Miss Jenelle Mckenzie 62. Mr Matthew Faiman 63. Dr Nichols Wilson 64. Mrs Anne Faiman 65. Ms Imasha Ranasinghe 66. Ms Brigid Fraser 67. Mr David Gibson 68. Mr Brett Connell (on behalf of Victorian Amateur Football Association) 69. Mrs Greer Abbott 70. Mr Nicholas Kemp 71. Ms Thalia Kiousis 72. Mr John & Mrs Leigh Julian 73. Mrs Francine Nicholson (on behalf of Cluden Sporting Club) 74. Mr Frank Farrugia 75. Mr Noel Pullen 76. Mr Andrew Julian & Mr John Purvis 77. Dr. Rafael Manory and Dr Irith Manory 78. Mr Michael Heffernan 79. Mrs Jane Shellard 80. Mr Jeremy Gates 81. Mrs Rachel Reynolds 82. Mrs Marian Woolf 83. Ms Jessica Batt 84. Mrs Michelle Gibson 85. Dr Peter Batchelor 86. Ms Billie-Jo Macfarlane (on behalf of Vampires Football Sporting Club) 87. Mr Peter Lavender (on behalf of Cluden Cricket Club) Page 3 | 188 88. Mrs Judith Smith 89. Mr Ian Jickell 90. Mr Daniel Phelps 91. Mr Paul Quick 92. Mrs Samantha & Mr Chris Mckenzie 93. Dr John Mowat 94. Mrs Sarah Loh (on behalf of South Metro Junior Football League) 95. Mr Jarrod Hall (on behalf of East Brighton Vampires Junior Football Club) 96. Mr Andrew Bath 97. Mr Richard Bown 98. Mr Marcus Lavender (on behalf of Cluden Cricket Club) 99. Ms Dorota Siarkiewicz 100. Mrs Wendy Briscoe 101. Mr Terry McConvill 102. Ms Allison Cramer 103. Mr Michael Aranda 104. Ms Glenys Fraser 105. Ms Claire Pallot 106. Ms Katrina Fraser 107. Mr Thomas Wallace 108. Dr David Cunningham 109. Mrs Nellie Rosenbloom 110. Ms Jan Smallman 111. Mrs Nicole George 112. Mrs Lindsey Joffe (on behalf of Elsternwick Park Community Alliance) 113. Mr Greg Wallace 114. Mr Stephen Mount 115. Ms Debbie So 116. Ms Anna Phelps 117. Mrs Deborah Wallace 118. Mr Alan Fletcher 119. Ms Sarah Buxton 120. Mrs Anne & Mr John Butler 121. Dr Alexis Butler 122. Mrs Victoria Hodges 123. Ms Jessie Doull (on behalf of AFL Victoria) 124. Mr David Fonda 125. Mrs Michelle Adachi 126. Mr Darren Mitchell 127. Mr Timothy Wood 128. Ms Rebecca Berecz 129. Mrs Morag Howard 130. Ms Anne-Marie Thompson 131. Mr Scott Pinnegar 132. Mr Chris Whitfield 133. Mr Angus Howard 134. Mr William Howard Page 4 | 188 Item 6.1 Notice of Motion – 305 – Reconsideration of Elsternwick Park Oval 4 – reconstruction, lighting and pavilion Page 5 | 188 1. Ms Caitlin Jones I bought my house in 2002 in Head St after seeing Elsternwick Park. I am devastated about the plans you have for Elsternwick Park. It should be left just as is because it is a special space to nurture our wellbeing. This has never been as important as it is now during a pandemic as it is one of the few places we are allowed to venture. Perhaps you are being pressured by sporting clubs. But you have Hurlingham park just over Nepean Hwy for sport, or the park on the other side of Bent Street to cater to sport. Local government should be listening to the locals in a representative democracy but you are not listening to the locals - people with dogs like me that are there twice a day with their families. Yet you are happy to collect our rates. I hope the plans for a pavilion do NOT go ahead, but if they do, please ensure that this project stays within the original of $724,800. Anything else is dishonest. Please don't use any more of our rates on something we don't want. Page 6 | 188 2. Ms Carroll Peko nee Williams REQUEST TO BE HEARD RE: ELSTERNWICK PARK OVAL 4 The decision to remove multi-purpose open sports and leisure space and replace it with a single use closed off space is unbelievable. We have this precious gift of open space due to the foresight of generous benefactors generations ago. They understood the value of open space for healthy living and had the foresight to gift this space to the future citizens of Brighton. The value of a large space where residents can just enjoy sitting on the grass or to undertake active leisure is greatly under valued. Fencing off a section of this wonderful area will interrupt the openness and hence the value, that can be derived from being there. Not just this space, the impact of fencing devalues the openness of the surrounding area as well. Such space is becoming increasingly rare, other councils are investing in creating open spaces for their residents, often at considerable cost. Yet here we have this available to us and our council is prepared to remove it and replace with a single use permanent structure. If you sit in the park every day you will see this space re-configured many times during each day. Multiple groups get use out of the same piece of ground, schools exercising, people exercising, sporting teams training, cricket games, people sitting and enjoying, dogs cavorting. With the increasing density of surrounding properties and the soon to be, high density development replacing the public housing along the canal there is more and more pressure for such multi-purpose open public space. Not only is such open space critical during the day it is a rare resource at night. Increasing light pollution makes it difficult to observe the night sky, our park is one place where we can easily access a form of darkness to view the constellations, the lunar and celestial events that occur. It is common to see family groups with telescopes viewing such events following a news item promoting them. Polluting this space with spotlights is a sad decision. The council has done a wonderful job with the Elsternwick Nature Reserve however that does not provide the exercising and leisure space that this grassed level area of the park does. The nature reserve is a wonderful walking, rambling and nature watching resource however It is not an equivalent of open level grassed space. The Covid crisis has confirmed the necessity and criticality of retaining open space, uninterrupted by fencing and built environment to be continuously accessible by all. The increasing population density makes it critical to provide children with the equivalent of the back yard to encourage out door activities. Leaving the open space intact does not preclude using Oval 4 as a sporting ground, it can be set up for games using portable structures as the other ovals are for cricket matches etc. Therefore both objectives can be achieved. I request that the council review the decision to lock up this space for the use of a few and hence take this space away from all its residents. Carroll Peko. Resident and Rate payer since 1986. Page 7 | 188 3. Ms Hayley McKee We have been enjoying the open space on the old elsternwick golf course. It is a haven for bird life, local vegetation, families and those seeking time out. The new oval works plan to jepordise this. The light pollution from installation of 30 metre AFL light towers, the unnecessary construction of a 300 sqm pavilion, millions of litres of water used for the oval plus herbicides poisoning our park and running off into the bay, all at a cost of $4 million and counting in rate payer’s money. In addition glyphosate (Round Up) pumped onto 16,000 sqm of grass and end up in Port Phillip Bay. Please reconsider what is really necessary and truthfully beneficial for the land and environment which is being enjoyed by the community as is.