Council rejects application for 83 caravan park homes
THE Denmark Shire council has knocked back an application for 83 park homes at Ocean Beach Caravan Park.
Caravan Park owner Bob Fowler asked the council to approve 21 of these for permanent occupation, with a lease renewable every year.
Sixty-two of the homes were to be used for long-stay residential accommodation, longer than three months.
Mr Fowler did not specify to the council the duration of the long stay occupations, therefore the council had to consider the application as a residential development.
The council knocked back the application because it was not consistent with the purpose and intention of a tourist zone.
Mr Fowler planned to appeal to the State Administrative Tribunal to adjudicate the matter.

Hospital entry trees spared
TREES bordering Scotsdale Road will not be bulldozed to make way for an access route into the new multi purpose health facility.
Twenty-five people protested at last week's Denmark Shire Council meeting against the trees being bulldozed for the entrance, which will be built 40-70m west of the Rushton Street/Scotsdale Road intersection.
A plan to build a four-way intersection at the entrance has been scrapped as it would have involved widening Scotsdale Road and bulldozing the marri and karri trees to eliminate 'points of conflict' in the traffic.
The council will inform the Health Department it supports an eastern exit for the hospital and would consider alternative acceptable, access designs, subject to the retention of the trees.
Some shrubs will need to be pruned to make way for the hospital access.
Shire chief executive Dale Stewart said the council had given strong direction that none of the trees would be removed.

Date set for release of Wilson Inlet Report
THE Wilson Inlet Report to the Community will be delivered on Thursday, November 20 at the Denmark shire administration building from 6-8.30pm.
Latest research and monitoring results of the inlet and its catchment, including water quality monitoring, seagrass mapping, fish research and an indigenous heritage survey, will be discussed.
Work that has been carried out in the catchment aimed at improving the condition of the inlet will be presented.
Representatives from Department of Water, Wilson Inlet Catchment Committee, Water Corporation and Murdoch University would give presentations and answer questions from the community.
Contact Daniel Endacott on 9841 0102 or email Daniel.Endacott@water.wa.gov.au

Call for citizenship award nominees
DENMARK shire residents can nominate individuals and groups from the community for the Premier’s Australia Day Active Citizenship Awards.
The awards recognise and reward local residents and groups for their contribution to community life and their participation in local projects, focusing on community involvement rather than on personal achievement.
Categories are for a person older than 25 years, younger than 25 and to a community group.
The awards will be presented on January 26 and nominations close on Friday, November 28.
Nomination forms can be downloaded from our website or are available at the shire library or administration office.

Four charged after police raid on house
FOUR people have been charged with a range of offences after police searched a house in Denmark.
Police seized cannabis plants, seeds and loose material, smoking implements and unlicensed ammunition.
On October 24, some handbags and purses were stolen from classrooms at the Denmark Primary School.
Police believe someone entered the school grounds during an assembly.
A shed was broken into at the Spirit of Play Early Learning Centre on Inlet Drive on October 27.
And on October 29, a wallet was stolen from an unlocked car parked at the Denmark TAFE campus carpark.
Denmark Police officer-in-charge Dave Dench said everyone should properly secure their cars and houses.
Anyone with information about the offences can contact Denmark Police on 9848 1311 or Crimestoppers on 1800 333 000.

The 'tache is back
DENMARK Police will grow and style their moustaches throughout 'Movember' as part of a fundraising campaign to fight men's depression and prostate cancer.
During November, the Denmark policemen will put an extra effort into cultivating and grooming their 'moustaches'.
The final 'moes' will be modelled at a sausage sizzle on Saturday, November 29 outside Supa IGA.
Everyone can donate towards the fundraising at the Denmark Police Station during office hours.

Wind farm wishes put council in a spin
THE Denmark Shire Council will consider in November if it will congratulate Denmark Community Wind Farm for its $1.4 million Federal Government grant.
The council debated whether Cr John Sampson's notice of motion to congratulate DCW was admissible because it had been included on the agenda after the October 21 meeting.
Shire president Kim Barrow told the meeting that on 21 occasions he had allowed notices of motion to be placed on the agenda after the monthly discussion meeting.
"I will allow this item to be included on this occasion," Cr Barrow said.
he said.
Cr Adrian Hinds wanted a system of transparency set up so that items were not 'slipped' on to the agenda before the second meeting.
The motion was not urgent and did not need to be dealt with at the meeting.
Cr Sampson said he had neither intended to create so much trouble nor had he intended to 'subvert transparency'.
 

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