WHILE it remains off the agenda before, during and after council meetings, alcohol can again be served at special events…
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MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire is choosing five “key actions” after joining the Australia-wide Climate Council’s Cities Power Partnership. The shire’s membership…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has knocked back an offer from the state government to take over responsibility for property valuations. The…
IF you’re unhappy with decisions made by the state planning minister, try to get him sacked through the ballot box.…
A “TEAM” from Mornington Peninsula Shire has returned from overseas with “invaluable information” to help the shire “address and respond…
RETIRING mayor Cr Bev Colomb, above, said at the Tuesday 14 November special meeting that it had been “an honour…
A REPORT released by the Victorian Ombudsman this month revealed 107 complaints about Mornington Peninsula Shire were made to the…
CUTTING power costs and cleaning up the marine environment are on the agenda of the Mornington Peninsula branch of the…
A SHAKE-up of the state opposition’s shadow cabinet has seen Mornington MP David Morris take on the role of local…
CERBERUS ward councillor Kate Roper says she believes Crib Point residents were not fully consulted about the possibility of the…
SOME of Mornington Peninsula Shire’s planning staff and senior executives may soon be operating out of an office in central…
MOVES to change “foreshore” to “coastal” when it comes to naming volunteer groups on the Mornington Peninsula involved with foreshore…
FIVE years ago Mornington Peninsula Shire paid $5.1 million for a block of shops in Wannaeue Place, Rosebud. Rosebud Central…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has a new Alcohol Management Policy, but it reads the same as the one adopted this time…
CONFUSION over which parts of the peninsula are subject to new rules allowing three-storey houses followed the first of three…
THREE public meetings are being held to explain changes to state government planning regulations that allow 11 metre high three…
A NEW era of “cooperation” between the state government and councils across Melbourne’s suburbs has been heralded with the formation…
THE imbalance in spending of ratepayers’ money across the Mornington Peninsula is starkly shown in amounts allocated for Australia Day,…
By David Gill* NEW planning provisions have been introduced state wide by the Planning Minister, Richard Wynne, without meaningful consultation.…
THE value of building permits issued on the Mornington Peninsula last year was up more than 40 per cent up…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire celebrated the 20-year anniversary of its inaugural council meeting held on 20 March 1997 at the Rosebud…
MOST respondents to a Peninsula Speaks online survey believe that man-made climate change is real and that it will affect…
MORNINGTON Shire Council already made significant steps towards transparency this year as a result of a Victorian Ombudsman’s investigation into…
RUSSELL Joseph has been selected as the Liberal Party’s candidate for the seat of Nepean at the November 2018 state…
ALL 11 of Mornington Peninsula Shire’s newly-elected councillors have been handed copies of a “Councillor and staff interactions policy”, which…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire acted quickly to remove electoral signs on Wednesday after being swamped by complaints about illegally-erected advertising. In…
FOOTPATHS, foreshores … and frogs. There is seemingly no end – and some cases no relation – to the variety…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire councillors were on Monday poised to give themselves the right to spend an extra $14,000 over their…
TWO Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors who attended a United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris late last year have fulfilled…
MORNINGTON Peninsula councillors are divided over a revised code of conduct that discourages them from making personal attacks on each…