In 2002 the Department of Defence proposed selling of land for development, retaining which contained contaminated soil and unexploded ordnance. The proposed sale was abandoned in 2003 following strong community protest. In 2004, of Defence land was transferred to the Commonwealth government's Point Nepean Community Trust, which managed the former Quarantine Station until the land was transferred to the Victorian government on 8 June 2009. The Commonwealth also transferred of bushland (former Firing Range area) to Parks Victoria and the remaining to the Shire of Mornington Peninsula for community use.