Locals are confused after reportedly unauthorised building started in considered one of Melbourne’s hottest seashore locations, stripping away a whole bunch of metres of native vegetation and leaving the council stumped.
On February 28, Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke shared a video on social media of building alongside the ocean wall of Frankston Seashore, south of Olivers Hill.
Greater than 50 residents contacted the MP’s workplace concerning the building, which first started in January.
Because the first reviews of building within the space, about 700sq m of native foreshore vegetation has been cleared amid “intensive” earthworks “encroaching on Crown land”.
In response to the Mr Edbrooke, the development website had “allegedly no permits, permissions or engineering certificates”.
After visiting the location on Saturday, he found “employees had been nonetheless laying kind work for concreting on the seashore”, although there are “no engineering plans” to find out what the precise works are.
“There aren’t any plans, so we don’t know what’s proposed,” he advised NewsWire.
An investigation has been launched by Frankston Metropolis Council, Mr Edbrooke confirmed, calling the development website “unacceptable”.
Development employees had been again on website on Monday morning regardless of requires the works to cease throughout the investigation.
“Upon arriving on the website this morning, concrete pouring had commenced,” Mr Edbrooke advised NewsWire.
“It is a case of environmental vandalism of our seashore and I’ll all the time combat to make sure our seashore and foreshore is protected and rehabilitated.”
NewsWire has contacted Frankston Metropolis Council for remark.
