St Fidelius wrote:I am not that concerned with the "growth" but total population in both Mornington, Frankston and Kingston regions, Kingston represents from suburbs from Moorabbin through to Carrum (which neighbours Seaford)...
and other such areas as Chelsea Heights and Patterson Lakes...
The total population of these three councils far out weighs any current or future population from Casey IMO...
Legendary wrote:Very good points St Fid ... whereas the growth in Frankston might not be quite as high as somewhere like Casey, it had a significant existing population and is still a high growth area anyway ...
Total population is very strong.
It’s a bit disingenuous to boost Frankston’s population by adding in a couple of other municipalities and comparing the total to Casey alone. Casey is in fact part of a wider region.
If you take the population of Mornington Peninsula, Frankston & Kingston as at June 2007 = 407,000.
Casey as at June 2007 was 229,000.
But if you include with the Casey area the eastward growth extension into Cardinia (currently 60,000, but will grow to about 150,000) and Greater Dandenong (static population of 132,000):
* currently 3 v 3 = 422,000 to 407,000
* future 3 v 3 = 630,000 to 430,000
Casey
et al beats Frankston
et al hands down, both now and in the future.
However I’m not sure why we’re comparing Frankston to Casey anyway. I earlier took issue with Legendary’s claim that Belvedere Park positions us in a strong population growth area. I pointed out that Frankston and the Bayside area are not growth areas at all. I didn’t mention Casey in my comment, but others took the debate in that direction. Casey’s irrelevant to the debate (except as an illustration of what a growth area actually is). Perhaps my earlier advocacy for Casey Fields as a relocation site have lingered in people's memories. But as that option disappeared quite some time ago I haven't advocated it since.
In fact the debate should be about the attributes of Moorabbin redevelopment v Belvedere Park. Belvedere Park has nothing there (a blank canvas it was positively referred to as) and is in an absolute crap location, whereas Moorabbin has existing infrastructure (I'm not talking about the buildings), is close to our aligned VFL club and we control a massive site. Given that we will lose the gaming machines from Linton Street anyway as a result of moving to Belvedere Park, we could just as easily have rethought our position and redeveloped at Linton Street.
When Frankston Park fell through, we looked for an alternative location in the City of Frankston because we thought there was still a land asset waiting for us at the end of the rainbow. However, that has now gone from the equation and so has our reason for staying in the City of Frankston.
Belvedere Park is a disaster, and we have tripped ourselves up horribly.