COLERAINE locals are raising their voice about the upkeep of the Peter Francis Points Arboretum with a view to having a local committee manage the attraction, with its increasingly deteriorating condition a major concern.

The decision several years ago to transfer its management to Parks Victoria with no allocated budget for it has raised fears the community asset could be lost, with locals and even MPs calling on the State Government to save it by handing the operation back to a ready-made committee.