Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan announced an inquiry into the cause of a landslide on the Mornington Peninsula last month that destroyed a three-storey house and forced the evacuation of 19 other homes. The inquiry will also examine if the landslide could have been prevented.
An inquiry will investigate the cause of a landslide on the Mornington Peninsula last month that crushed a three-storey house and led to 19 other homes being evacuated, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has announced.about 9am on January 14 and collapsed onto a home below.
In a press conference on Tuesday morning, Allan said her government would establish a board of inquiry into the cause of the landslide and whether it could have been avoided. “We need to get to the bottom of what has happened here because too many people have been let down and too many questions remained unanswered,” the premier said in a statement.
Nineteen homes near Point Nepean Road were evacuated after geotechnical engineers deemed the McCrae cliff unsafe and prone to moving again.with the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council over who would pay to stabilise the cliff after a smaller landslip in November 2022 forced two pensioners from their homes at the bottom of the cliff.The cliff moved again just a week before the major landslide, which destroyed the $2.1 million property in Penny Lane.
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