MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire will consider asking the state government to drastically reduce the interim landslide planning controls introduced in response to a recommendation from the McCrae landslide board of inquiry. At the 11 August council meeting, councillors will decide whether to write to Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny requesting amendments to the Interim Erosion Management Overlay (EMO7). If adopted, it would reduce the number of affected properties from 33,000 to around 6,000. The changes would bring the peninsula’s total land area covered by the overlay down to around 5.5 per cent, with 40 per cent being public land. The recommendation follows…
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THE state Planning Minister, Sonya Kilkenny, has approved an interim erosion management overlay (EMO)for the Mornington Peninsula that critics say is deeply flawed, potentially misclassifying tens of thousands of properties as landslide-prone despite council acknowledging errors in outdated mapping and raising concerns about “anomalies”. The approval comes after a letter from Kilkenney in October, obtained by The News, gave the shire just 14 days to commence the implementation of the EMO, or face state government intervention. Described by some as a major “overreach”, the interim erosion management overlay (EMO7) targets land assessed as highly susceptible to landslides, affecting about 33,000…