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Public notices

In accordance with Section 3 of the Local Government Act 1989, Council provides public notices in the following publications:

  • Herald Sun (Wednesday) for publication of tenders and expressions of interest;
  • Bayside Leader for publication sales and leases; and
  • The Age for publication of all other statutory public notices and additionally the Bayside Leader as deemed appropriate.

Special Meeting of Council

Notice is hereby given that a Special Meeting of Council will be held in the Council Chambers, Boxshall Street, Brighton, on Tuesday 15 May 2012 at 6.30pm for the purpose of transacting the following business:

  1. Proposed 2012/2013 Budget, Strategic Resource Plan 2012-2016, Long Term Financial Strategy, and Long Term Financial Plan.

Adrian Robb
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Please Note: the official public notice appeared in the Age Newspaper on Wednesday 9 May 2012.

Proposed Discontinuance of Roadway abutting 68-82 Graham Road, Highett

Notice is given pursuant to sections 206 (1), 223 and clause 3 of Schedule 10 to the Local Government Act 1989 (Act) that the Bayside City Council (‘Council’) proposes to discontinue the roadway adjoining 68-82 Graham Road,  Highett (‘Road’) as shown hatched on the plan below (‘proposal’). It is proposed that the land from the road (‘the proposal’) be sold by private treaty to the adjoining owner of 68-82 Graham Road, Highett at a price of $439,200 plus GST.

Any person may make a submission on the proposal to Council. All submissions received by the Council on or before 8 June 2012 will be considered in accordance with section 223 (1) of the Act by a Special Committee of Council.

If a person wishes to be heard in support of their submission they must include the request to be heard in the written submission and this will entitle them to appear in person or by a person acting on their behalf, before a meeting of the Special Committee of Council, scheduled to be held on 13 June 2012 at 7.30pm in the Council Chambers, Boxshall Street, Brighton.

The meeting will proceed if one or more persons request to be heard in support of their submission as stated above.

Section 223 Submissions quoting reference No: Fol/11/923 should be addressed follows:

Property Officer
Proposed Discontinuance – 68-82 Graham Road, Highett
Bayside City Council
PO Box 27
SANDRINGHAM    VIC 3191

Submissions may also be delivered to Council’s office at Royal Avenue, Sandringham

All submissions will be considered in accordance with section 223 of the Act. Following consideration of submissions, if any, Council may resolve not to discontinue the section of road or any part thereof or to discontinue the section of the road or any part thereof and sell the land from the road or retain the land.

Enquiries to Barry Mclennan – Acting Leasing Coordinator PH: 9599 4444

Written submissions received in accordance with section 223 of the Act must be made available for public inspection upon request in accordance with the provisions of the Act, and will be incorporated in full (including any personal information) into the agenda and minutes of any Council or Committee meeting at which the matter is considered. The submissions will be available on Council’s website as part of any relevant Council or Committee agenda and minutes.

Adrian Robb
Chief Executive Officer

Governance (Miscellaneous Amendment) Local Law 2012

In accordance with section 119 of the Local Government Act 1989 (the Act) notice is hereby given that Bayside City Council (the Council) proposes to make a local law to be known as the Governance (Miscellaneous Amendment) Local Law 2012 (the proposed Local Law).

The following information about the proposed Local Law is provided in accordance with section 119 of the Local Government Act 1989 (the Act):

Purpose of the proposed Local Law

The purpose of the proposed Local Law is to:

  • Amend Council’s Governance Local Law no: 1; and
  • Reflect legislative changes to the General Election date to assist in the election of the Mayor process.

General purport of the proposed Local Law

The proposed Local Law, if made, will amend Council’s Governance Local Law No: 1 by:

  • Deleting clause 7 (1) (b) of the Governance Local Law; and
  • Substituting with a new clause 7 (1) (b) to reflect the legislative change to the General Election to take place on fourth Saturday in October.
    A copy of the proposed Local Law may be inspected at or obtained from the Corporate Centre, 76 Royal Avenue Sandringham of viewed on Council’s website http://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/

Any person affected by the proposed Local Law may make a submission to the Council.  All Submissions received by the Council on or before  4.00pm Tuesday 5 June 2012 will be considered in accordance with section 223 of the Act.  Any person requesting that he or she be heard in support of a written submission is entitled to appear before a meeting of a Special Committee of Council, either personally or by a person acting on his or her behalf  to be held at 6.30pm on Wednesday 13 June 2012 in the Council Chambers, Boxshall Street Brighton.  Copies of all submissions received will be made available to the public as part of the Council agenda.

Submissions clearly marked “Governance Local Law Submission” should be addressed to the Chief Executive Officer P.O. Box 27 Sandringham 3191 by 4.00pm Monday 5 June 2012.  Telephone enquiries concerning this matter should be directed to Mr Terry Callant on 9599-4327.

Adrian Robb
Chief Executive Officer 

The official public notice appeared in the Age Newspaper on Friday 27 April 2012.

Making of Consolidated Local Law No. 2 Neighbourhood Amenity 2012

Notice is given that at a meeting of Bayside City Council (Council) held on 10 April 2012, Council made a local law titled “Consolidated Local Law No. 2: Neighbourhood Amenity” (the Local Law).

The following information about the Local Law is provided in accordance with section 119(3) of the Local Government Act 1989:

Purpose of the Local Law
The purposes of the Local Law are to:

  • secure community safety;
  • protect public assets;
  • enhance neighbourhood amenity;
  • embrace best practice local law making principles of accessibility, accountability, compliance, consistency, currency, efficiency, enforceability, necessity and transparency;
  • be consistent with Council’s overall objectives and policies, in particular:
    - to maintain neighbourhood character;
    - to preserve our built and natural heritage;
    - to provide equitable access to services and facilities;
    - to provide equity in access to our open space and foreshore;
    - to maintain suitable infrastructure; and
    - to provide a sense of community in our villages and activity centres;
  • provide for the administration of Council’s powers and functions;
  • consolidate Council’s previous Local Laws 2, 3 and 4; and
  • revoke any redundant Local Laws.

General purport of the Local Law
The Local Law:

  • provides for the administration of the Local Law and empowers Authorised and Delegated Officers to
    issue Notices to Comply, act in urgent circumstances and impound animals, items or other things;
  • creates an offence if a person fails to comply with a Notice to Comply;
  • regulates applications for, and the granting of, permits under the Local Law;
  • regulates the setting of fees and charges that apply under the Local Law;
  • makes it an offence for a person to apply a name to a road without Council’s consent;
  • requires people who have been allocated property numbers to mark their property with that number;
  • makes it an offence for an owner or occupier to cause or allow their land to be kept in a manner which
    is unsightly or detrimental to the amenity of the neighbourhood;
  • makes it an offence for an owner or occupier of private property to allow any graffiti to remain on any
    building or structure on their property;
  • makes it an offence for a person who owns or has the control and management of any building,
    structure or asset on Council Land to allow any graffiti to remain on that building, structure or asset;
  • makes it an offence for an owner or occupier to allow their land to be kept in a manner which is
    dangerous or likely to cause danger to life or property;
  • makes it an offence for an occupier to whom Council provides a waste collection service not to comply
    with the Guidelines for domestic waste, recyclable and hard rubbish services incorporated in Schedule
    1 to the Local Law;
  • makes it an offence for a person to remove or interfere with any recyclable material or hard rubbish
    left on a road, or at any other collection point;
  • makes it an offence for a person to burn or cause to be burnt in the open air any offensive materials or,
    unless certain circumstances exist, burn or cause to be burnt in the open air any other materials;
  • makes it an offence for a person to cause offensive emissions of smoke and odour to enter a
    neighbouring property;
  • makes it an offence for an owner or occupier not to ensure that necessary steps are taken to prevent
    fires on their land or ensure that their land is kept free of undergrowth exceeding 300mm in height;
  • makes it an offence for a person to camp on private property unless certain circumstances exist;
  • makes it an offence for owners or occupiers of land to install certain audible intruder alarms;
  • makes it an offence for a person to keep, store, repair or use shipping containers on Council Land,
    or without Council consent, on private property;
  • makes it an offence for a person to destroy, damage or alter significant trees or protected trees
    (including replacement trees) on private property unless specified circumstances exist;
  • makes it an offence for an owner or occupier of land to allow a tree or vegetation to grow so as to
    overhang an abutting road or present a hazard of the kind specified;
  • makes it an offence for a person to allow a tree or plant on his or her land to cause damage to or
    interference with any fixture or other erection or drain under Council’s control;
  • makes it an offence for an owner or occupier of land to keep certain types of animals, or keep certain
    types of animals in specified numbers, without Council consent;
  • makes it an offence for the owner or occupier of any land where animals are kept not to provide
    accommodation in accordance with the Guidelines in Schedule 1 to the Local Law;
  • makes it an offence for a person in charge of an animal not to carry a litter device, and not to remove
    and dispose of that animal’s faeces once deposited, on Council Land;
  • makes it an offence for an owner or occupier not to take steps to remove wasps nests within 7 days
    of becoming aware that such wasps nests exist on their land;
  • makes it an offence for a person to place or allow another person to place a bulk rubbish container on
    a road unless they have obtained Council consent;
  • makes it an offence for a person to use a motor bike or other motorised recreational vehicle on private
    property, or on any part of Council Land other than roads, unless specified circumstances exist;
  • makes it an offence for a person to dismantle, paint, carry out maintenance on or repair a vehicle on a
    road unless it is for the purpose of removing it;
  • makes it an offence for a person to leave any derelict, abandoned or unregistered vehicle on any
    Council Land unless they have Council consent;
  • makes it an offence for a person, without Council consent, to park or authorise the parking of any
    heavy or long vehicle on any road for which Council is the Responsible Road Authority for more than
    one hour, unless certain circumstances exist;
  • makes it an offence for a person, without Council consent, to keep or store heavy vehicles or long
    vehicles on roads that Council is responsible for or on any other land including private property and
    Council Land;
  • makes it an offence for a person, without Council consent, to use a road contrary to a sign that Council
    has erected because it has decided that the particular road is likely to be damaged by a particular
    class of vehicles and so those vehicles should be prohibited from using that road;
  • makes it an offence for a person to organise, conduct or hold a street party, festival or procession
    on a road, without Council approval;
  • makes it an offence for a person to conduct certain types of roadside trading or performing without
    Council consent;
  • makes it an offence for a person to trade from certain sites;
  • makes it an offence for a person to place or display any goods for sale on Council Land unless they
    have Council approval;
  • makes it an offence for a person to use Council Land for the purposes of commercial outside dining
    (whether or not liquor consumption is intended) without first gaining Council approval;
  • makes it an offence for a permit holder not to move any outdoor eating facilities to which their permit
    relates if they are requested to do so;
  • makes it an offence for a person to erect or place an advertising sign on any part of a road or Council
    Land other than in accordance with a permit;
  • makes it an offence for a person to solicit or collect any waste materials, gifts or money or
    subscriptions or distribute handbills from Council Land or roads or from houses adjacent to Council
    Land or roads unless that person has first obtained Council consent;
  • enables an occupier of land to arrange for the collection of trade waste from, or for the placement of
    a waste hopper or recycling bin on, their land in compliance with the Guidelines in Schedule 1 to the
    Local Law;
  • makes it an offence for a person to place any trade waste or material in a trade waste bin, waste
    hopper or recycling bin contrary to the notice on the hopper or recycling bin or to the Guidelines in the

Local Law;

  • makes it an offence for trade waste and waste hoppers not to be kept on the land of the person on
    which the waste is generated except for the period from 12 hours before to four hours following
    collection of the waste;
  • makes it an offence for a person to tap into or interfere with any drain or open any road under
    Council’s control unless they have Council consent;
  • makes it an offence for an owner of land not to have or maintain a vehicle crossing, or to install,
    construct, alter or reconstruct a vehicle crossing, in specified circumstances;
  • makes it an offence to remove, prune or damage any street tree as a result of constructing, installing,
    removing or altering a vehicle crossing;
  • makes it an offence for an owner not to repair or pay Council to repair damage to an existing driveway,
    crossing, footpath, tree or existing road occurring from building works on the property;
  • makes it an offence for a person, in certain circumstances, not to install a temporary vehicle crossing;
  • makes it an offence for a person to allow building works to commence or continue on private property
    unless that person has notified Council and complied with certain Council requirements;
  • makes it an offence for a person on a road to consume any liquor or have in their possession or control
    any liquor unless the liquor is in a container with an unbroken seal or certain circumstances exist;
  • makes it an offence, between sunset and sunrise, for a person in a municipal reserve or in a motor
    vehicle in a municipal reserve to consume or have in their possession any liquor unless the liquor is in
    a container with an unbroken seal or certain circumstances exist;
  • makes it an offence for a person to smoke in a municipal place that has been declared by Council to
    be a smoke free area;
  • makes it an offence for a person, in a municipal place, to behave in a manner that endangers others
    or unreasonably interferes with the quiet enjoyment of the municipal place by any other person;
  • makes it an offence for a person to destroy, damage, deface or interfere with a municipal place or any
    things located in a municipal place;
  • makes it an offence for a person to destroy, damage or interfere with a water course, ditch, creek,
    gutter, drain, tunnel, bridge, levee, culvert, or any directly adjoining fence, vested in or under the
    control of Council unless they are permitted to do so by Council;
  • makes it an offence for a person to leave a rubbish container, clothing recycling bin, movable structure,
    device, material or other object on Council Land if that object is causing an obstruction, is a danger to
    persons or is likely to obstruct traffic;
  • makes it an offence for a person in a municipal reserve to behave in a manner that endangers others
    or unreasonably interferes with their quiet enjoyment of the municipal reserve;
  • makes it an offence for people who are required to obtain a permit in order to use a municipal reserve
    in a specified way, not to use the municipal reserve in that way unless a permit has
    been obtained;
  • makes it an offence for a person to enter a municipal reserve other than via designated access points,
    during hours of operation and subject to certain conditions imposed by Council;
  • makes it an offence for a person to camp on Council Land unless that person is within a licensed
    caravan park or area where camping is expressly permitted by Council;
  • makes it an offence for a person to light a fire and/or to allow a lit fire to remain alight in specified
    places and circumstances;
  • makes it an offence for persons to congregate around lit fire in specified places unless those persons
    have obtained Council consent;
  • makes it an offence for a person to undertake any filming on Council Land where the film is for
    any commercial purpose and/or television broadcasting purpose, unless that person has gained

Council permission;

  • makes it an offence for a person, without Council permission, to park any motor car, motor cycle or
    other motor vehicle on any part of a municipal reserve other than in a designated parking area;
  • makes it an offence for a person to ride or lead a horse, camel or other mountable animal on Council
    Land unless certain circumstances exist;
  • makes it an offence for a person to use a wheeled non-motorised recreational device and/or wheeled
    child’s toy in an area where such use is expressly prohibited and designated by Council;
  • makes it an offence for a person to erect, place, establish, maintain or keep a bathing box in a
    municipal reserve unless that person has a licence from Council to do so;
  • makes it an offence for a person, while in a municipal building, to behave in a manner that endangers
    others or unreasonably interferes with others’ quiet enjoyment of that municipal building;
  • makes it an offence for a person to organise or undertake any event in a municipal building without

Council consent;

  • makes it an offence for a person to engage in an activity without a permit where the Local Law
    expressly requires that person to obtain a permit prior to engaging in that activity;
  • makes it an offence for a person to fail to comply with a permit condition; and
  • empowers an Authorised or Delegated Officer to issue an infringement notice for contravention of the

Local Law, which may give rise to a penalty specified in the Local Law.

Copies of the Local Law may be inspected or obtained at Bayside City Council’s Corporate Centre at 76 Royal Avenue, Sandringham during office hours and at Council’s Customer
Service Centres (during their normal operating hours), and may be viewed on Council’s website and at Council’s branch libraries.

Adrian Robb
Chief Executive Officer

Proposed Discontinuance of part of Shasta Avenue, Brighton East

Notice is given pursuant to sections 206 (1), 223 and clause 3 of Schedule 10 to the Local Government Act 1989 (Act) that the Bayside City Council (‘Council’) proposes to discontinue part of Shasta Avenue, Brighton East (‘Road’) as shown hatched on the plan below (‘proposal’). It is proposed that the land from the road (‘the proposal’) be sold by private treaty to the adjoining owner of 48 Shasta Avenue, Brighton East as the land is enclosed with the existing fenced boundary.

Any person may make a submission on the proposal to Council. All submissions received by the Council on or before 27 May 2012 will be considered in accordance with section 223 (1) of the Act by a Special Committee of Council.

If a person wishes to be heard in support of their submission they must include the request to be heard in the written submission and this will entitle them to appear in person or by a person acting on their behalf, before a meeting of the Special Committee of Council, scheduled to be held on 13 June 2012 at 7.30pm in the Council Chambers, Boxshall Street, Brighton. The meeting will proceed if one or more persons request to be heard in support of their submission as stated above.

Section 223 Submissions quoting reference No: Fol/12/1936 should be addressed follows:
    Property Officer
    Proposed Discontinuance – Part Shasta Avenue, Brighton East
    Bayside City Council
    PO Box 27
    SANDRINGHAM VIC 3191

Submissions may also be delivered to Council’s office at Royal Avenue, Sandringham

All submissions will be considered in accordance with section 223 of the Act. Following consideration of submissions, if any, Council may resolve not to discontinue the section of road or any part thereof or to discontinue the section of the road or any part thereof and sell the land from the road or retain the land.
Enquiries to Sharon Fitchett – Property Officer PH: 9599 4444

Written submissions received in accordance with section 223 of the Act must be made available for public inspection upon request in accordance with the provisions of the Act, and will be incorporated in full (including any personal information) into the agenda and minutes of any Council or Committee meeting at which the matter is considered. The submissions will be available on Council’s website as part of any relevant Council or Committee agenda and minutes.



Adrian Robb
Cheif Executie Officer

This public notice appeared in The Age newspaper on Saturday 31 March 2012.


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