Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron Filled Seabed Leased from the Crown

Documents on the Planning Minister's decision to require an Environment Effects Statement for the BMYS Ltd marina plan: scroll to Item 2009-09.
Details of the site and its history, its inscription on the Register of the National Estate, and documents on fossil discoveries there
Zoning and the Environmental Significance Overlay and Vegetation Protection Overlay under the Bayside Planning Scheme, and a fine photo
1997 lease of BMYS Ltd. site, and 1994 legislation excising 2,000 square metres of the adjacent Permanent Public Recreation Reserve
		2000-09	1990s	1980s & before


Views, at various times, of the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site at the centre of Melways Reference 86F8. Click on the pictures above for a larger image, and click here for the Wikimapia view of Beaumaris Bay.
*	2009: Documents on Minister’s decision on an Environment Effects Statement being needed for BMYS marina plan: scroll to Item 2009-09.
*	2008: 116-BERTH MARINA FOR BEAUMARIS BAY: Marina and more Bay filling on the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site, and more works on its leased, filled site is sought by Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron Ltd, but such intrusion into Beaumaris Bay is opposed by BCS Inc. as indicated in a front page report by the Bayside Leader newspaper on 2008-06-02.
*	2005 coup chose to allow the excavator in the photo above to permanently deface the Beaumaris cliff rather than cordon off a safe zone below for inevitable odd rock falls.
*	2001: Action 11K of Bayside City Council’s 2001 Black Rock - Beaumaris Foreshore Master Plan gives as a Priority 1 're-inforce and encourage public access to the area surrounding the BMYS compound and associated jetty', which has never been implemented, contrasts with the reality of the notice in the photo just above.
*	1999 inscription of the Foreshore Reserve and the seabed out to 250 metres on the Register of the National Estate as the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site (Identifier 18053)
*	Bayside Planning Scheme: Zoning of the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site and the BMYS Ltd. leased land is PPRZ (Public Park & Recreation Zone) with Schedule 1 to the Environmental Significance Overlay ‘Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site’ and Schedule 1 to Vegetation Protection Overlay ‘Coastal Areas’. See example of a Beaumaris sea urchin fossil on Museum Victoria Web site. ESO Schedule 1 cites the fossil of the extinct penguin species Pseudaptenodytes macraei, named after its finder, Colin Macrae, the second President of BCS. This Environmental Significance Overlay is the only ESO in the City of Bayside.
*	Geological map showing the Beaumaris Monocline, which runs straight inland, via the intersections of Warrigal and Centre Dandenong Roads, and Clayton and Centre Roads, as far as Glen Waverley (the second page, from the Atlas of Victoria, shows the 1891 population distribution and municipal boundaries in Melbourne and environs)
*	Entries at Victorian Resources Online and Google on Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site, Google entries on Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron Ltd. and the Wikimapia view.
*	1999 sequence of aerial photographs of the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site from it south-west limit of Sparks Street to its north-east limit of Cliff Grove
*	1998 Bay Filling at the Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron Ltd. site (opposite 3 Beach Rd.) & February 1999 aerial photograph of the BMYS Ltd. filled leased site
*	1997 lease by BMYS Ltd. of seabed site under Section 134 of Victoria's Land Act 1958 is for 21 years from 1997-07-01 to 2018-06-30, and replaced the first (1981-2002) lease. The rental for this current lease is $13,000 per year. See lease Pages 1-34 and Pages 35-50.
*	1994 legislation altered the 1906 Order-in-Council that created Moorabbin Beach Park as a Permanent Public Recreation Reserve, by reducing the Reserve’s area by 2,000 square metres to ostensibly redress the original impropriety of leasing that part to BMYS Ltd. A BCS letter explained why that cheap, one-sided expediency was opposed.
*	1986: Paper on Significant Geological Features along the Coast in the City of Sandringham (R.L. King, R.M. Cochrane and A.M. Cooney) by Geological Society of Australia
*	1985: Letter sought Government consent to fill 6,000 square metres more of Beaumaris Bay to extend north-east end of the BMYS Ltd. area. The fill occurred in 1998.
*	Wording in Lease of the Seabed by the Crown to BMYS Co-op. Ltd. that requires RED AREAS to be kept open at all times to full public access on foot: No public notice there tells the public that. Instead, a questionable gate - usually unlocked - exists across the access path, near the controversial notice pictured above.
*	Official Government Ground Plan of the BMYS Co-op. Ltd. 21-year lease: RED AREAS must stay open at all times to full public access on foot.
*	1981: Excerpts from the proposed Lease of Seabed by the Crown to BMYS Co-op. Ltd. This first lease for 21 years, at $500 per year for the first 10 years, began on 1st July 1981, but it was replaced in 1997, five years before its expiry, by the current lease.
*	1978 Hansard on proposed 21-year lease to BMYS to supersede its permissive occupancy. This first lease, at $500 per year for the first 10 years, began in July 1981.
*	1970: Paper, in National Museum of Victoria Memoirs, on the Miocene penguin fossil found by Colin Macrae. Named Pseudaptenodytes macraei after Mr Macrae.
*	1969: - Letter from Professor George Gaylord Simpson, Professor of Paleontology at Harvard University, on the scientific importance of the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site, Paper on an Upper Miocene Albatross fossil, and a paper on a Zygomaturus gilli fossil, each found at the Beaumaris site, in National Museum of Victoria Memoirs.
*	1965: Late Miocene fossil found at Beaumaris cliff by Colin Macrae - New Record of a Fossil Penguin in Australia - SIMPSON G. G., 1965. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. 79: 91-93
*	1964 state of the BMYS Co-op. Ltd. clubhouse
*	1963: Framework of the BMYS Co-op. Ltd. clubhouse being erected on its permissive occupancy filled seabed, with the then Keefers boatshed in background at right
*	1962 Annual Report to members of Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron Co-op Ltd. by its inaugural Commodore, Sir Lawrence Wackett
*	1961 report in The Age newspaper of alleged unauthorized removal of foreshore vegetation by Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron Co-op. Ltd.
*	1959: BMYS began in February 1959, became Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron Co-op Ltd. on 1960-01-28, and changed to a company limited by guarantee on 2004-12-23.
*	1955: Paper, in National Museum of Victoria Memoirs, on the Stratigraphical Occurrence and Palaeoecology of some Australian Tertiary Marsupials, by Edmund Gill
*	1910 photograph of the Beaumaris cliff showing the rocky beach north-east of the former Keefer's boat shed, which was first granted a licence for a jetty in 1905.
*	1887 famous painting 'Slumbering Sea, Mentone' by Tom Roberts, with the present site of the filled seabed leased to the BMYS Ltd. in the foreground

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