THE BATTLE over a proposal to log almost 100 hectares of forest in a rural conservation zone in Thoneman’s Road, Beenak, is scheduled to come to a head at the end of the month.
A Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) hearing into the proposal, which is expected to last for up to four days, is scheduled to commence on Monday, 27 March.
Moran Logging Company of Warburton, the company behind the logging proposal, applied to have the matter heard by VCAT at the end of last year.
The move angered the Friends of Hoddles Creek residents’ group which accused the logging company of pre-empting a vote on the proposal by Shire of Yarra Ranges councillors in late January. On Tuesday, 24 January, the council voted unanimously to oppose the application.
At the time, Cr Len Cox said the application was one of the worst he had seen.
Other objectors to the application maintain that it is at odds with the shire’s Vision 2020 policy and will result in the destruction of precious flora and fauna.
Gary Moran of Moran Logging declined to make any comment on the application.
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