8 years ago
April 12 to April 25, 2017
A shortage of volunteers over Easter has meant that Ocean Grove Fire Brigade might have to scale down its annual Good Friday Appeal.
Although the main collection point on The Terrace will continue, the brigade will probably only have the use of one truck to do its collection rounds and the popular ‘town run’ will not occur this year.
6 years ago
April 10 to 24, 2019
Ocean Grove residents are pleading with council to install a pedestrian crossing on Kingston Downs Drive before it’s too late.
The road, which services the rapidly expanding Kingston Estate, is used by schoolchildren riding and walking to two local primary schools.
4 years ago
April 9 to 22, 2021
Preliminary work on a potential “world class conservation area” stretching from Ocean Grove to Point Lonsdale is about to start.
The South East Bellarine Coastal Reserve Strategy, the brainchild of Ocean Grove Community Association, would further enhance one of the most significant conservation areas in the region, according to the City of Greater Geelong.
2 years ago
April 7 to 20, 2023
Greater Geelong council made its views clear on the proposed development at 57-59 The Parade, Ocean Grove, with councillors unanimously rejecting the developers’ application for a planning permit at last Thursday’s planning meeting.
The contentious development, a three-storey, 16 unit complex that was repeatedly described at the meeting by councillors, city officers and objectors alike as “monolithic”, was refused a planning permit on several grounds.
