Mount Alexander Shire Council
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Calls for creative housing solutions
Creative housing solutions were high on the agenda at last week’s meeting of Mount Alexander Council with residents raising the issue at public question time. Also on the agenda was a proposal for two 49-year peppercorn lease to provide affordable housing for over 50s in Maldon and Newstead. Laurel Kanost wrote to the council regarding…
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Meet the friendly faces at council
Mount Alexander Shire Council is opening its doors so the community can meet the friendly faces at council.
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For the next generation
Connecting Country is co-hosting a National Tree Day community planting with Mount Alexander Shire Council and Post Office Hill Action Group on July 30. The day is a chance for the Mount Alexander/Leanganook community to take direct on-ground conservation action to restore and enhance local biodiversity. This event has been made possible due to the…
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Porcupine Village project advances
The team behind the redevelopment of Maldon tourist attraction Porcupine Village has submitted an amended planning permit for consideration by Mount Alexander Shire Council. Construction at the site was forced to a standstill in January this year due to breaches of permit application conditions and a lack of approved planning permits, with the exception of…
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Ward structures under review
Mount Alexander Shire Council and Hepburn Shire Council are among 39 Victorian local councils undergoing electoral structure reviews throughout 2023-24. The Local Government Act 2020 introduced several changes, including that all metropolitan, interface and regional city councils must now have single-councillor ward electoral structures. Macedon Ranges Shire Council will not have its electoral structure reviewed…
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Housing crisis deepens
We all ask ourselves what’s going on when we see tarps erected in public places, or people sleeping in their cars. Those who work daily with people experiencing housing stress and homelessness understand that open or rough sleeping in Mount Alexander Shire is the visible tip of the iceberg of the current systemic housing crisis.…
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Exhibition claims national honour
The good news continues for the newly installed Boorp Boorp Boondyil exhibition at the historic Castlemaine Market Building, with the announcement that exhibition celebrating local Indigenous culture has won a national award. Boorp Boorp Boondyil, which means ‘passing knowledge on to our children’, was selected as the winner in the Indigenous Recognition category of the…
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Working towards net zero
The Mt Alexander Net Zero Working Group has been busy behind the scenes highlighting the efforts of local businesses in working towards 100 per cent renewable energy. Following the success of their first short film featuring The Mill Castlemaine, the group successfully applied for a Mount Alexander Shire Council grant to assist with the production…
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Community to gather and reflect
Mount Alexander Shire Council will be recognising Sorry Day and National Reconciliation Week with a number of events open to the community. This will begin with a Sorry Day Commemoration to be held at Castlemaine Secondary College in Lawson Parade this Friday May 26 at 10.30am. The morning will include a Welcome to Country and…
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Depot gets green light
Lisa Dennis A contractor’s depot will be built on farming land at Muckleford after gaining approval at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. The VCAT decision has overturned a refusal by Mount Alexander Shire Council to grant a permit to applicant Slingo Earthmoving Castlemaine. The application for land at 315 Butchers Road, Muckleford, was knocked…
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Bridge back on agenda
Jade Jungwirth The highly controversial Froomes Road Bridge is once again on the agenda of tonight’s Mount Alexander Shire Council meeting. At the beginning of 2020 the council resolved to award the contract for the bridge’s replacement, but after receiving negative feedback from residents and a petition with 1300 signatures, the council temporarily suspended awarding…
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A little bit of Christmas magic
Jade Jungwirth A group of local women has spent endless hours making hand-crafted Christmas wreaths to place around the townships of Castlemaine and Maldon. Seventy-three-year-old Lana Osterfield organised the wreath-making efforts, using vines pruned from her ornamental grapevine, with eight other retired crafters. “The council had approached a group of craft people to make decorations…