Several of our readers have alerted us to the fact that the Caulfield Racecourse will now be the venue for just on a month long stretch of Silvers Circus performances. Looking at their website many of the dates include both matinees and evening shows. The seating for each show, according to booking diagrams, holds close to 800 people. It further looks like this will take place on the Guinea’s Car Park which is Crown Land.
Important questions arise out of this little arrangement – some of which have already been pointed out by our readers –
- Did council and/or councillors know about this?
- Did the Planning Department issue a permit for the advertising signs?
- What consideration was given to the potential impact of noise, and events of this magnitude finishing at 10pm on local amenities?
- What has happened to the so called ‘agreement’ that only 10 days of special events were to take place?
- When does this ‘agreement’ actually come into operation? Or will Council and the MRC argue that it has not as yet ‘started’?
Glen Eira Debates 
June 23, 2011 at 5:58 PM
As always the MRC are a law unto themselves and the administration all too willing accomplices.
June 23, 2011 at 10:19 PM
Are the clowns going to be Andrew Newton and Paul Burke
June 23, 2011 at 10:20 PM
Now I love a circus just like everyone else in this beloved electorate and can I just prempt my comments and say that Silvers is one of the best Circuses in the world BUT once again residents have been shafted by a decision made by the MRC and the gang of four plus Plilling have committed electoral suicide by approving C60. Two months in and no work yet on the fencing and centre. How about betting that none of the racecourse works are completed within 12 months “as agreed”? Goodbye Esakoff, Lipshutz, Hyams, Tang and Pilling- and don’t bang your head on the doorway out. Oh and don’t forget your mates Newton and Burke too.
June 23, 2011 at 10:36 PM
Society loves a circus and vote with their feet. The problem has always been where to locate them. This is an ideal position having a limited effect on our residents and traffic. I already have 4 tickets .
June 23, 2011 at 10:49 PM
Yup, circuses are doing so fantastically that half of the travelling troups that were around in Australia 15 years ago are now defunct. Just shows how much people are voting with their feet – in the opposite direction. But as per usual, you seem to miss the finer points of all arguments Anon. How about Newton’s role in enforcing the ‘agreement’? Reckon we’ll wait until 2015 before it even begins and before a single sod is turned or a fence pulled down. And betya that a permit for advertising hoardings was silver plated and handed over personally by none other than that wonderful planning chief Akehurst. Such loyalty to a cause should not go unnoticed. Besides, I feel so sorry for all those poor caged animals. They haven’t got a choice in their exploitation. You do Anon!
June 24, 2011 at 12:23 AM
From viewing a few documents back in the last 15 years, council has always been sucked into agreement wth the money and land grabbers, which haqs really run off the track and is venturing onto so many other forms of big business now as it creeps across the Crown Racecourse Reserve with dozens of promises which are never fulfilled. What a joke CR Tang never attends trustee meetings for some idea of someone’s that its better for someone,certainly not GE Residents, and yet he has his photo taken beside a notice which forbad park walkers from walking on most of the Crown Reserve for most of the day and also forbad anyone from playing ball in the Crown Reserve(for the horses’ peace, when the governing body allowed a thirty minute passenger service on the Crown Reserve for twelve hours a day during Melbourne Cup Week.
June 24, 2011 at 1:30 AM
More about the circus and our council agreement to gforbis ball games and bicycle riding!
Guess what the circus has jugglers and what do they juggle????? and it also has bicycle riders guess what bikes they are riding…. SPECIAL MOTOR BIKES AT THE END OF THE SHOW EVERY NIGHT SAT ABOUT 10.30PM Who cares about us or the noise disturbing the horses in their stables!!! It’s amazing we as residents are forbidden to play ball games, ride bicycles or enter the reserve at the moment after the early hour of 5.08pm…. yet this commercial group haqs been given the right to make profits on Crown LAND IN SHOWS STARTING AT 7.30PM. \ME NO UNDERSTAND.
June 24, 2011 at 5:03 AM
Another type of joke……Mr Terry Montebello, who only rang his bell for Glen Eira residents during the daylight hours has been appointed to the state govt. review of planning system committee!! PRW 24June2011
June 24, 2011 at 10:36 AM
It may come as a surprise (it did to me), but Circuses are special. They don’t require a Planning Permit so long as they meet the requirements contained in A ‘Good Neighbour’ Code Of Practice For A Circus Or Carnival October 1997.
Being a code, its value is in outlining how the Government might wish a responsible and ethical operator of a Circus to operate. There isn’t an obligation on Council to do anything about failures to comply with the requirements. They could choose to enforce them, or not.
The document covers amongst other things site suitability, noise, advertising, duration, operating hours, traffic, parking, and site access. There is also some provision for limited notice to be given to people who abut or are opposite the site provided they are within 100m. The alleged purpose of the code is to ensure the amenity of the neighbourhood is not adversely affected.
I doubt that the requirements listed in Traffic, Parking And Site Access have been met, but since “appropriate provision and maintenance of pedestrian access in and around the site” is a requirement, this should cover access to the public reserve in the centre of the racecourse.
June 24, 2011 at 10:51 AM
Council’s Local Law reads:
Circuses, Carnivals and festivals
319. (1) Conducting a Circus, Carnival or festival on any land.
(2) This clause does not apply in relation to a Circus or Carnival which
is operated in compliance with the ‘Good Neighbour Code of
Practice for a Circus or Carnival, April 1993’, or where permitted
under the Glen Eira Planning Scheme.
Go to the Planning Scheme and this reads:
Must meet the requirements of A ‘Good
Neighbour’ Code of Practice for a Circus or
Carnival, October 1997.
One should really question the oversight of the Local Law Committee and its lawyers when the clauses they include are so obviously out of date!!
June 24, 2011 at 11:13 AM
No reason to complain now. Payoff for being such a good girl and supporter of Newton, Esakoff has got her noggin into no less than 10 photos in the July edition of the glen eira news.
June 24, 2011 at 12:02 PM
Smart Aleck are you kidding. Circus has never been more popular than what they are now. It’s just that the traditional circus has changed.
June 24, 2011 at 1:37 PM
Funny thing circuses are supposedto be so popular, however they are a rapidly decloining form of entertainment. There won’t be any elephants or likons in our streets cause it is a magic mechanical show with stunt motor bikes coming out for the nail gripping finale way after 1o.oopm
July 4, 2011 at 1:07 AM
If you don’t like it, move.
Morons.
July 9, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Get a life you whinging losers. And i also like the idea of you moving!