Please come and chat with your neighbours over a free drink and nibbles.

We will also have our local council representative there to chat about things happening in the City of Port Phillip.

It’s a great opportunity to explain how much you love our ‘water sensitive urban design garden’ out the front, or how you’ve noticed that the food delivery scooters are politely sharing our footpath or maybe you’d like to congratulate the City of Port Phillip on the lovely changes they are making in Park St 😉

Beti Jay is our rep and she lives in Park St. She understands our pain but it would be good if she hears it politely from more than just me.

PLEASE make an effort to come along

Thursday 29th May 6pm – 8pm

Flo’s 412 St Kilda Road

RSVP for catering by 9am Monday 26th May
Through concierge or knurekmusic@gmail.com

Please come and chat with your neighbours over a free drink and nibbles.

We will also have our local council representative there to chat about things happening in the City of Port Phillip.

It’s a great opportunity to explain how much you love our ‘water sensitive urban design garden’ out the front, or how you’ve noticed that the food delivery scooters are politely sharing our footpath or maybe you’d like to congratulate the City of Port Phillip on the lovely changes they are making in Park St 😉

Beti Jay is our rep and she lives in Park St. She understands our pain but it would be good if she hears it politely from more than just me.

PLEASE make an effort to come along

Thursday 29th May 6pm – 8pm

Flo’s 412 St Kilda Road

RSVP for catering by 9am Monday 26th May
Through concierge or knurekmusic@gmail.com

Dear Neighbors,

I hope this email finds you well. I am pleased to be writing with good news today. The process to begin our transition back to mains power has begun with an expected cessation of use of the large generators on April 25th. The plan to transition the Clinic back to mains power has the following steps:

• The Clinic will ramp down patient numbers to a minimum next week, with the majority of the Clinic shutting from Friday April 25th.
• We will be utilising 2 small generators onsite within the clinic grounds to power one ward and essential services during the closure. These are similar small generators to the initial period of the flood, which did not cause a major disturbance to the surrounding buildings.
• Over the course of the weekend we will have a significant number of trades onsite preparing and commissioning the new switchboard.
• CitiPower are booked to re-energise the switchboard on Monday 28 April
• We will see patients readmitted and normal work at the Clinic resume on Monday.

There is not expected to be any further generator noise after the main compound is switched off mid morning on the 25th. We will have some minor traffic disruption in Bowen Lane when we move the generators and fuel tanks – the date for this is not finalised but I will advise when it is confirmed, we expect it to be completed before the Clinic reopens on Monday 28 April.

Please note that with the weather expected to change over the Easter weekend, we have booked the generator company to attend site to rehang the acoustic curtains on Saturday. They should remain in place until the generators are switched off on Friday according to the current weather forecast.

While we understand that the generators have caused inconvenience for you and the residents of your buildings, we do thank you for your willingness to work with us as we navigated this complex and unexpected situation. We have continued to be able to serve our community in providing essential mental health care through keeping the Clinic operational during this time.

I hope you all enjoy your Easter.

Thank you once again for your patience and support.

Regards,

Petra Glare
CEO

Hello,   As part of getting the Metro Tunnel ready for operations activities and exercises involving firefighters, police, SES and paramedics will take place at Anzac Station from 7am to 5pm on Tuesday 22 April 2025.   These activities and exercises will take place inside Anzac Station. During this time, you may notice low levels of noise, carrying of emergency equipment in and out of the station and emergency services personnel around the station. There will be no testing of alarms, vehicle sirens or changes to traffic or tram services as part of these activities and exercises.   Emergency Services vehicles, including fire trucks, ambulance vehicles, police vehicles and other marked vehicles, will be parked from 7am to 5pm in some parking bays around Anzac Station. Please see below for more information of where Emergency Services vehicles will be parking.   Emergency Services vehicles parking on St Kilda Road Northbound lanes in the four ¼P parking bays between Bowen Lane and Albert Road south Northbound lanes in the two Emergency Services vehicle/Designated vehicle bays next to the St Kilda Road and Albert Road intersection Southbound lanes in the seven ¼P parking bays next to the St Kilda Road and Domain Road intersection   Emergency Services vehicles parking on Albert Road Westbound lanes in the 5 minute parking area next to the Albert Road and St Kilda Road intersection Westbound lanes in the two 5 minute parking bays between the Taxi drop off and Loading Zone bays   Emergency Services vehicles parking on Domain Road Westbound lanes in the 2P Meter/30 Minute Loading Zone parking bays 88, 89 and 90 next to the Domain Road and St Kilda Road intersection Eastbound lanes in the 2P Meter parking bays 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 between St Kilda Road and Dallas Brooks Drive.

Please find attached the works notice which is being distributed to the community. If possible, we’d like to ask you to please share this notice with your organisations, buildings and network.   Please don’t hesitate to contact us by phone or email should you have any questions.   Kind regards,     Metro Tunnel Project Office

Someone had trouble navigating St Kilda Rd last night

A wild day in Melbourne yesterday – you can see some glimpses of blue sky, some heavy rain and the MCG lights

I have 2 tickets for The Removalists tonight 630pm session at Southbank Theatre

We can’t use them

Send me an email – buckgw@gmail.com

A number of you have raised the issue with the noise coming from generators in Bowen Lane for the Ramsay Clinic. The generators were an emergency installation following a major flood.

We received this update today

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Hi Neighbours

I have an update on our power situation for you all. While not a final resolution date, we have made significant progress in approvals and planning since I was last in touch.

I know with the warm weather there has been an increase in the load on the generators and also the impact of the noise from doors and windows being open. You may recall that we had to decrease the acoustic blankets around the compound due to the heat leading to the generators overheating and failing. We are sorry for this ongoing noise but we are doing our best ot balance the stability of power for the hospital with the noise of the generators. We have had Worksafe out to review twice in the past 3 weeks and they have advised that the decibel readings are within acceptable levels and our emergency situation as a health care facility allows us to run them in this configuration. The decibel readings are all under 85 within the immediate vicinity of the generators, on the footpath and at the building boundary, which is where Worksafe took their readings from. 

I can advise that our new switchboard is now in build mode with the estimated build time 4-5 weeks. This means that we are busily planning to return the site to mains power supply as soon as the board is installed. At this point we are looking at a window in the 2 weeks post Easter, but a final date will not be known until we have a final build completion date for the switchboard itself and approval from Citipower to re-activate the sub-station. We have commenced work with Citipower already to expedite their works to enable us to switch across.

I will keep you all informed as we progress to a set date for the transition to occur but we are now well on the way to being able to remove the generators from site.

I am at a conference next week so will have intermittent access to email but please don’t hesitate to reply and I will do my best to respond in a timely manner.

Please share this information with your residents / neighbours as per my previous correspondence.

Thank you

Petra

Petra Glare
CEO

Do you live near Albert Park? Did you know you could attend the Grand Prix for free on Thursday 13 March?

The Australian Grand Prix Corporation are offering free Park Pass tickets to the local community – including free access to all grandstands.

All you have to do is present a valid ID (or utility bill and ID) with the address of your residence or business within the following postcodes:

3182

3205

3206

3004

The Park Pass tickets can be redeemed on Thursday 13 March at gates 2, 3, 5, 8, and 10 – tickets are one per person living at address and subject to availability.

For more information follow the below link and see under the Community Day drop down. https://bit.ly/4hrRrbS