By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
IT’S a neighbourhood complaint to rival all others.
Wishing to remain anonymous, this Cranbourne West man deals with hard rubbish dumping, burn-outs, hooning and mini-bike activity every single day.
Residing near Breens Road and Monahans Road, he said: “It’s like living in a tip site”.
“Monohans Road is the biggest dumping site, its 24/7, we get beds, trees, lounge suites, plaster, building products, you name it we’ve had it,” he said.
“You’d swear blind you were living next to Calder Park Raceway, with the hooning and burnouts.”
The annoyed resident said most of the dumping occurs outside a set of units near Monohans Road, saying the development is constantly up for lease, which adds to the kerb side trash.
“There’s about 40 units on the corner and there’s rarely a week goes by where household rubbish isn’t dumped out the front,” he said.
But it’s not only affecting the nature strip.
“There are no houses near the switching yard on the north side of Breens Road and Calais Circuit and people literally back up their car, push stuff off and drive away at night.
“The council had a bobcat and truck here last week to clean up the mess.”
Mad at the lack of council support for his concerns – which have spanned the past 10 years – this tired resident is calling for speed humps to be built on Breens Road.
“We get mini-bikes five nights a week, from 5pm to 5.30pm and some are high-powered bikes, they do a few reps before leaving which doesn’t give police enough time to get here and catch them,” he said.
“They don’t wear helmets, we need police on motorbikes patrolling the area, that’s the only way to catch them,” he said.
“Hoons are here most nights, you’ll hear screeching brakes at all hours, there are always fresh skid marks, but nothing seems to get done.
“They hoon around the corner of Calais Circuit and light it up down Monohans Road.”
Talking on behalf of other neighbours, he said one home on the corner of Calais Circuit is regularly up for sale.
“You can’t sleep, people just can’t live there,” he said.
Local residents have put a stop to eight hoons, after tracking down their home addresses, but the irritated resident said “it’s only a matter of time before someone gets killed”.
And in a series of warrants, executed over three days, police charged 26 people with hoon related offences on Friday 5 February. Seven were from Casey.
An 18-year-old Cranbourne man, 18-year-old Cranbourne East man, 20-year-old Narre Warren man, 22-year-old Hampton Park man, 23-year-old Clyde North man, 24-year-old Narre Warren South man and a 39-year-old Narre Warren man were charged.
Eighteen cars were also seized.
Charges including conduct endangering serious injury, conduct endangering life and other hoon and traffic-related offences.
Anyone with any information regarding hoon activity in Casey is urged to contact police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
