VCAT - Dogs club ‘vital’ - **new article update 09/02/10**

[Sedat]

BUMP

The Club Edgewater VCAT hearing reconvenes today according to the above reports on July 21st. Would be great to have the final decision posted as soon as it is handed out.

[BulldogBelle]

The Doggies have deeper pockets, more powerful friends in important places, more clout, more backers and more supporters than the local council and these residents

Dont worry, we will win this little war

[Stefcep]

The Doggies have deeper pockets, more powerful friends in important places, more clout, more backers and more supporters than the local council and these residents

Dont worry, we will win this little war

Thats what i love about democracy.

[Topdog]

Thats what i love about democracy.

Ahh democracy, one of the greatest lies of the past century.

[BulldogBelle]

Ok, here is the latest update....

High stakes pokies
Star News Group | Charlene Gatt | 11th August 2009

A VICTORIAN Commission for Gambling Regulation review and changes to gaming legislation in 2012 could see more poker machines removed from the City of Maribyrnong.

VCGR legal counsel Karin Emerton told a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal the commission stood by last year’s decision to grant a 70-machine gaming license to the Western Bulldogs for the proposed Club Edgewater development.

Under the licence, 48 of the machines would be relocated from the Whitten Oval, while the remainder would come from Yarraville Club, Powell Hotel and Braybrook Tavern.

A total of 11 machines would be removed from the municipality.

Ms Emerton said the number of machines in the municipality could go down further post-2012 depending on how successful venue operators were during the bidding process for gaming machines and machine entitlements.

Under the new 2012 regime, gaming venue operators will receive 100 per cent of gaming revenue, but have to purchase the machines, the gaming entitlements, and give the State Government a 30 per cent cut.

Click HERE to read the remainder of the article...

[LostDoggy]

Still no updates on the Bulldog Hillton?

[BulldogBelle]

Still no updates on the Bulldog Hillton?

No nothing as yet Dex, no articles have surfaced since the last one I put up.

[Mantis]

Reported on BF that we won our appeal with VCAT.

[LostDoggy]

Anyone have any further news regarding this...??

Fantastic news if true!!

[LostDoggy]

Anyone have any further news regarding this...??

Fantastic news if true!!

It is confirmned now on the club website, as it says this is fantastoc news for our club. All approved including pokies ((70), 300 seat function room, 50 hotel rooms. Can you imagine the patronage the hotel will get at Melbourne cup time, location. location.
2010 is it everything that is happening to the club is positive. The problems of those dark years is now a distant memory.

[The Coon Dog]

Club Edgewater to open in 2011



Today the Western Bulldogs Football Club were informed that the Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) had handed down their decision, giving appropriate Town Planning & related approvals to enable the construction of Club Edgewater.

Article in full...

[comrade]

The strengthening of our ties to the community continues.

I'm looking forward to heading down to Edgewater to watch the Bulldogs when they play interstate.

[LostDoggy]

The strengthening of our ties to the community continues.

I'm looking forward to heading down to Edgewater to watch the Bulldogs when they play interstate.

It will be great to have a "Home" to go for things like that.
Perhaps we all should go to the building site to celebrate our 2010 Premiership, and then have a more formal celebration when it is built in 2011.

[The Coon Dog]

Council fails to block Bulldog Hilton

Damian Barret - From: Herald Sun - December 16, 2009 9:51PM

IT TOOK five years of messy legal wrangling, but the Western Bulldogs were yesterday given a resounding all clear to forge ahead with their lofty "Bulldog Hilton" concept.

The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal found strongly in the Dogs' favour, and against Maribyrnong City Council, that the planned hotel, entertainment and gaming venue in Edgewater precinct be allowed to proceed.

The "Bulldog Hilton", about 2km from the Dogs' recently renovated Whitten Oval headquarters, will serve as the club's social base.

Article in full...

[FrediKanoute]

Where the players themselves come from is irrelevant. The club is a cornerstone of the local community, and locals support the club.

Look at EPL - drive around London and you'll pass through Arsenal - full of Arsenal fans, turn the corner and you're in Tottenham, full of Spurs fans, down the road into West Ham... their players come from all over the world, but the club still means loads to the local community.

and then you drive through Chelsea......and none of the fans can afford to live there