ENDEAVOUR HILLS HALLAM DOVETON
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Tuesday, 23 August, 2022
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Plan growing pains By Cam Lucadou-Wells “Moderate-income” earners are being prioritised for 47 affordable future townhouses up for sale at the controversial Coomoora housing estate in Springvale South. However, the dust still hasn’t settled with the estate’s neighbours who say they are enduring a mass of heavy trucks, dirt, noise and the widespread loss of trees as part of the works on the former Coomoora Secondary College site. It comes after community uproar forced the State Government’s property developer Development Victoria (DV) to scale down the project at 15-29 Coomoora Road. Currently, a range of two-storey dwellings are being advertised from $635,000 - $780,000. Priority access is being given to “eligible moderate-income earners” to buy the homes before they’re on the open market. DV has stated it aims for least 25 per cent of homes to households earning less than $132,030 a year. A deposit of at least 10 per cent is required. “The Priority Access program creates a great opportunity to get into a new home,” DV property development group head Penny Forrest said. “Melbourne’s south-east corridor is one of the city’s fastest growing areas. “Developments such as Coomoora will help to meet housing demands as this region’s population continues to grow and offer residents low maintenance townhouses with access to quality open space.” DV had scaled back its original, unpopular plan for 90 dwellings on the former school site. The revised master plan will total 63 lots – including 16 land-only sites already sold. Visitor parking was increased from 20 spots to 28, some roads widened and open space expanded to about 10 per cent of the 4.4 hectare site. Some existing significant trees were to be retained. Cr Tim Dark described the project as still a
Tarek Clements at the Coomoora Road access to the estate construction site. 294547 “gross overdevelopment” in a suburban residential area. “They have used an extreme level of site coverage to cram in townhouses. “I can foreshadow significant issues with its minimal amount of visitor car parking.” He said traffic issues were exacerbated by the adjoining Keysborough Primary School, plans for a council-funded kindergarten and a proposed townhouse estate on vacant land at
46-62 Darren Road and 55-67 Coomoora Road. A lot of neighbours are upset about the surge of heavy vehicles, early-morning noise and the earth-fill being spilled on streets with “minimum consultation”, he said. “The correspondence with residents has been incredibly poor, particularly given that the developer is a state developer.” Neil Jamieson, who has lived in the area for 12 years, says he’s being woken every morning
Picture: GARY SISSONS at 6am by a tip truck being started up near his house. “He rumbles past my home, the whole house shakes and the front facing bedroom fills with diesel fumes and particulate matter.” Mr Jamieson says streets are covered in clay from heavy vehicles, which will potentially “pull apart” the newly-laid bitumen on Northgate Drive. Continued page 8
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