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Loddon HERALD Vol 4 No 25, THURSDAY JULY 4, 2024 ISSN 2653-1550
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THERE was a temporary bar to traffic in Brooke Street Inglewood on Saturday afternoon. With volunteers holding stop signs and police helping direct vehicles, the Inglewood Ambulance Auxiliary Op-shop moved its historic counter to its new outlet in the former Royal Hotel. The counter, once a third of the bar at the long-closed Charlie Napier Hotel, was shifted 100 metres in a slick five-minute operation. LH PHOTO
MP’s HOUSING PUSH CONNECTING water and sewerage at Newbridge could help ease Victoria’s affordable housing crisis.
Ripon MP Martha Haylett has told State Parliament that hundreds of homes could be built in the Loddon River town. Connection of services was on Loddon Shire’s advocacy wish list for the last federal and state elec-
By CHRIS EARL
tions. A group of residents has been spent a decade calling for water and sewerage infrastructure to open residential zoned blocks for housing development. The State Government last month set Loddon Shire a draft target of 500 new homes in the next 30 years.
“In Newbridge and Talbot we could build hundreds more affordable homes if we had the enabling infrastructure, including sewerage,” Ms Haylett told Parliament two days after the target was announced. “The need for more affordable housing (in Ripon) is raised with me by constituents, community groups and stakeholders every single da,” she said.
“Currently there are 58,459 applications for social housing across Victoria, including 432 families in Maryborough, 261 in Ararat, 182 in Creswick, 85 in Beaufort, 51 in Avoca and 33 in Wedderburn, and the list goes on. “We have limited homelessness outreach services across Ripon and next to no transitional housing or crisis accommodation. “Communities are calling out
for more housing, with many trying to advance local solutions.” Ms Haylett said solutions included the Wedderburn Lions Club wanting to build housing for older residents, “They just need investment and an interested service provider,” she said of the club’s push over more than a decade for an aged care facility. .CONTINUED PAGE 4
80 Southey St Inglewood A DEVELOPMENT N THE MAKING One of Inglewood’s original old homes, with massive development ability. On a grand, 1 Acre of land, with 3 Street frontages, the savvy investor has the potential of a 6-block subdivision with the old cottage, still front and centre. The original home has 2 living areas with a solid fuel heater, 3 bedrooms (all original), and a remodelled bathroom for easy access of any elderly or disabled persons, Galley style Kitchenette. Being early 1900’s the home also offers an external Laundry along with a detached bungalow. A unique parcel of land suiting that savvy investor. $595,000 to $615,000 FP NEVINS DOES NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ABOVE