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The heritage bridge in Mentone is progressing quickly, with the concrete to form the new deck now poured 🙌 We’re preserving Mentone’s rich rail history by creating 540 square metres of community space. The beloved heritage station buildings will be reinstated in late July. Thanks for bearing with us, Mentone – we can’t wait to unveil your new look soon Read more…

We are officially halfway through our 64-day construction blitz in Cheltenham and Mentone. We re-opened Balcombe Road in the early hours of Tuesday 23 June and travelling through the area is now safer and easier for the local community. Works are continuing around the clock in the trenches, as traffic flows uninterrupted above. Find out more about the construction blitz. Everything Read more…

You can’t miss the new brightly coloured artwork adorning the Balcombe Road site fence in Mentone The masterpiece was created by students at St Patrick’s Parish Primary in Mentone – a team effort by those learning from home and those attending school during the lockdown period. The impressive piece depicts Mordialloc to Cheltenham, with the middle panels highlighting Mentone scenery Read more…

Mentone, your new heritage bridge is taking shape This week, we’ve poured the deck and finished installing the planks for the new heritage bridge over the rail trench. By the end of July, we’ll reinstate the heritage station buildings – which are more than 100 years old. As part of the Balcombe Road level crossing removal, we’re preserving Mentone’s rich Read more…

Balcombe Road, Mentone open soon Our 64-day construction blitz has now been going for four weeks and we have re-built and re-opened Park and Charman roads. With crews now putting the finishing touches to Balcombe Road, by early next week all three roads will be open boom gate free. Last week, we finished excavating the rail trenches, with the equivalent Read more…

Check out this incredible view of our works at Cheltenham and Mentone 😮 Over the past two weeks, workers have removed more than 74 Olympic-sized swimming pools of soil – about 200,000 cubic metres – for the new lowered rail line 🚜 As excavation wraps up, workers will soon begin reinforcing the walls of the trench before beginning to lay the tracks Read more…

Kingston B-Well Kingston B-Well is a new partnership between Councils Business Directions team and Central Bayside Community Health Services (CBCHS). Kingston B-Well will be launching next week during World Wellbeing Week (22-29 June), and will focus on business health and wellbeing opportunities.To learn more, check out Kingston’s Business page from next week. Read more…

Moving our economy from linear to circular, shifts the focus from increased consumption and high waste to simply doing more with less. The Circular Economy is an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources. The systematic approach to economy development is designed to benefit businesses, society and the environment. This is in contrast to the Read more…

Mentone Station Gardens Revealing your new heritage gardens Preserving your local heritage Work is well underway on the new Mentone Station precinct. The new station design will preserve Mentone’s rich rail history while upgrading the station precinct to make it safer and more accessible. Whilst the gardens are closed  we can complete major works, including piling in the station precinct Read more…

Our biggest level crossing removal construction blitz started on Saturday night, and boom gates at Park and Charman roads were removed on Sunday morning. The Balcombe Road boom gates were removed the previous week when the road closed, meaning Mentone and Cheltenham are now boom gate free. The remaining heritage Cheltenham Station building on platform one will be dismantled and safely relocated into Read more…