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Monday, 14 May 2012 |
 Brimbank Council's Planning Department is asking Sunshine and Albion residents to trust them. Trust them to plan a more livable suburb that includes connectivity and walkability. Trust them to “connect community destinations and hubs, such as shopping centres, train stations, schools and leisure facilities to parks and to create a more socially cohesive community”.
But can we trust Brimbank council to deliver anything other than what they have delivered before? Remember this is the council that delivered to Sunshine the Hampshire Road overpass that traverses the Sunshine rail line and connects the southern precincts to central Sunshine and Ballarat Road. Creating the destruction of City Place and surrounding businesses over 50 years ago.
While it might connect vehicles it does not connect pedestrians or cyclists. The overpass does not have a footpath or cyclist lane. Occasionally locals will spot a lone walker or cyclist risking life and limb mistakenly trailing this route unaware the planned access for their kind is via the Sunshine Railway Station underpass. |
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Sunday, 15 April 2012 |
 Need practical information to help you deal with government? SunRRA is proud to host a series of classes that are designed to help understand how our government works, and how best to engage with it on issues that matter to you.
The classes are the brainchild of Brimbank law graduate Emma McDonell, who will present the course over four Saturdays starting on the 21st of April.
The course will focus on giving practical information to residents about how they can advocate for themselves and their community.
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Wednesday, 14 March 2012 |
I have lived in Sunshine some nine years now. While I’ll acknowledge that is not a long stretch of time by any measure let me say I have married into a Sunshine family of many generations, the beginnings in 1926 no less.
The stories and descriptions of the old Sunshine are something to be proud of. The lifestyle, friendships, caring of and for neighbours, the enjoyment of open spaces, the quality of shops and trade and the neat and tidy streets are passed down as folklore in my family.
But something has changed in Sunshine something has been lost in Sunshine. And the following story might be only the beginning of an explanation to this mystifying demise.
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Monday, 13 February 2012 |
 After great frustration last year the Sunshine Residents and Ratepayers Association Inc., (SunRRA) gave up trying to hire the Harvester Meeting Room at Sunshine Library for our monthly public meetings.
The process to hire this venue commenced in early 2011. This is the same room we had been hiring for many years. Way back then applicants could apply online via Brimbank Council’s website. We filled out the application and sent it off to the nominated officer at Brimbank.
Some weeks later we were still waiting for a response. Sometime around mid-March we called Council to enquire on the progress of the application. We were told that the person who previously had handled incoming applications had left, and that Council had failed to change the email address for applications. They could not access the previously submitted application. Council requested we fill in a new application, and start the process all over again. A new form was emailed to SunRRA and duly filled out. |
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Monday, 12 December 2011 |
 Sunshine's history is rapidly being reduced to a series of signs pointing to where remarkable things once used to be, but no longer are.
The physical history of Sunshine's heritage-listed H.V. McKay Gardens has already been reduced to a few bits and pieces – the iron gates, part of the footbridge and the size and position of the gardens are what remains. For the rest - the gardener's cottage, the glasshouses, the gate lions, the golden footpaths, the rotunda, the fences, the cypress hedges – these have all been reduced to signs pointing to where things used to be. Fourteen mature trees had been allowed to wither and die under former Brimbank CEO Marilyn Duncan's inept stewardship. We tell school children and visitors, as we point to an empty lawn, “imagine what it once looked like..”. It is rather pathetic and sad don't you think?
The Regional Rail Link Authority now plans to remove what remains of the original fabric of the gardens, to move the iron gates, slice off a “sliver” of land, and to entirely replace what remains of the original footbridge. The destruction of the historical fabric of these gardens will then be utterly complete. We will be left with references to our history, but not the actual history itself. Australia will have lost its oldest remaining industrial garden.
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HO4 - John Darling Flour Mill.pdf
McKay Gardens Heritage submission