05/06/2026
🌱CALLING KOALA, BIRD LIFE, WILDLIFE, LANDCARE & GREEN WEDGE SUPPORTERS 🌱
URGENT: Help oppose the Sand Quarry expansion, planning permit application PA2503956 at 60 Valley Rd / 150 Quarry Rd, Langwarrin.
Join the Facebook group: Say No to Valley Rd Quarry https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1cYGHX5RQb/?mibextid=wwXIfr
The application is CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW & a decision could be made ANY DAY!
All submissions received must be taken into consideration, until the final decision is made by The Minister for Planning - so every objection, even if they are small, matter! Please email urgently. Multiple submissions can be made if you include different objection points.
The applicant seeks to encroach into over 7 Hectares of land (their Planning Application Report p.3 states approx 7.876 Hectares), including Rural Conservation Zoned land - with native vegetation and large native trees, including Eucalyptus species that Koalas & native wildlife rely upon.
The current quarry at 150 Quarry Rd Langwarrin has exhausted its sand recourses & is due for rehabilitation. Thus the company wants to “expand” into adjoining land & extract an estimated 2.4 million tonnes of sand.
This proposal matters beyond Langwarrin because it raises serious concerns about:
- biodiversity loss
- habitat fragmentation
- mature tree removal
- bird & bird habitat loss
- koala food & shelter loss
- koala movement corridors
- wildlife connectivity & loss
- rural conservation zone land
- green wedge protection
- boggy creek environmental values
- combating climate change
- air pollution; including but not limited to, fine PM10 & PM2.5 particulate matter including Respirable Crystalline Silica (silica dust), and “bio-accumulative” toxins as stated in the applicant’s documents
- further encroachment in years to come
Residents report seeing a wide variety of wildlife including koalas, glossy black cockatoos, yellow crested cockatoos, parrots, owls, kangaroos, swamp skinks (an extremely shy endangered lizard), gliders, and frogs.
The Biodiversity Assessment (3.2 Fauna Habitat p.16) states “The study area contained a range of habitat qualities suitable for various fauna species, including open grassy areas, forests and tree hollows. From a strategic perspective, the study area also forms part of a biolink identified by Frankston City Council.”
A beautiful diverse habitat. But particularly for Koalas, Birds species & others like the Swamp Skinks, the issue is not only whether one animal is seen on the day a survey takes place.
The bigger issue is whether we keep destroying the connected habitat that wildlife needs to survive.
The Frankston Planning Scheme notes this area as an Existing Habitat Corridor, Potential Habitat Corridor & an Environmentally Sensitive Area on Table 02.04-4 Environmental & Landscape Values (Map).
A mature tree is not replaceable in a few years. Tree hollows, canopy structure, shelter, food, recourses & safe movement pathways can take decades to form - even the applicants Arborist Report states hollows can take 70 plus years! That is certainly not in my lifetime.
This is why habitat fragmentation is so dangerous: one more patch removed, one more corridor weakened, one more group of vitally important mature trees gone.
Residents & environmental supporters can object under the planning criteria including:
- Protection of biodiversity
- Native vegetation management
- Environmentally sensitive areas
- Landscape Values
- Rural Conservation Zone
- Environmental risks and amenity
- Air quality management (air pollution)
- Land use compatibility
- Natural Recourse management
Objections must:
1. Be emailed URGENTLY to: [email protected]
2. Have the subject line: Objection to PA2503956
3. Include the reason for objection
4. state how the objector would be affected
5. be written in your own words
Wildlife don’t have a choice so we must advocate for them!
Please email and share urgently with anyone who cares about protecting what is left of our local habitat. 🐨 🦜 🍃
Note: This is not an attack on construction, it’s about whether THIS AREA is appropriate for this type of activity.
Full permit application details can be viewed at:
https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/planning-approvals/ministerial-permits-register/ministerial-permits/4679bf81-a799-f011-b41c-6045bde6f374
This is a big battle. Thank you to anyone who cares enough to email an objection 🙏🐨🦋🐞🦜🌱
And for those who want the exact criteria the Assessment Team looks at, they advised that a planning permit requirement is triggered against the following provisions of the Frankston Planning Scheme which can be accessed here:
https://planning-schemes.app.planning.vic.gov.au/Frankston/ordinance?f.Scheme%7CplanningSchemeName=
- Clause 35.06-1 Rural conservation zone: use of the land for extractive industry (sand extraction)
- Clause 35.06-5 Rural conservation zone: construct a building or construct or carry out works associated with a Section 2 use
- Clause 35.06-5 Rural conservation zone: Earthworks which change the rate of flow or discharge point of water across property boundary
- Clause 52.08-1 Earth and energy resource industry
PLUS they will consider the relevant Municipal Planning Strategy & Planing Policy Framework provisions:
-02.02 Vision
-02.03-2 Environmental and landscape values
-02.03-3 Environmental risks & amenity
-02.03-4 Natural Resource Management
-02.03-7 Economic Development
-02.04-4 Environment & landscape values
-02.04-6 Resource management map
Environmental & Landscape Values
-12.01-1S Protection of biodiversity
-12.01-1L Protection of biodiversity
-12.01-2S Native vegetation management
-12.05-1S Environmentally sensitive areas
-12.05-2S Landscapes
-12.05-2L Frankston Landscapes
Environmental Risks & Amenity
-13.02-1S Bushfire planing
-13.05-1S Noise Management
-13.06-1S Air Quality management
-13.07-1S Land use compatibility
Earth & Energy Resources
-14.03-1S Resource exploration & extraction
-14.03-1L Resource exploration & extraction
Economic Development
-17.01-1S Diversified economy
-17.01-1R Diversified economy Metropolitan Melbourne
-17.01-1R Diversified economy Metropolitan Melbourne South metro region
