PRIVATE landowners attempting to claim public land as their own through encroachment could face increased scrutiny as a Mornington Peninsula Shire councillor calls for a crackdown on the behaviour. Cr David Gill, at the time of publishing, was to move a motion at the council’s 8 April meeting in which he would implore the shire to investigate and report on illegal land encroachments on council-owned and managed property, warning that if “it’s tolerated it just gets worse and worse”. He said the shire had informed him last year that it had identified and inspected 34 structure encroachments on council-owned property,…
Tuesday, April 8
