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Green buffer for shire a ‘priority’ BY MICHELLE HERBISON SURF COAST Shire will retain a “non-urban break� between Torquay and Armstrong Creek, according to a planner. Shire planning and development manager Brydon King told a lunch meeting of developers last week that a green wedge between the two towns would be a “key council priority�. Mr King’s comments came as developers prepared to expand both Armstrong Creek and Torquay with new residential developments. The first residential development within Surf Coast Shire’s Torquay North precinct would deliver about 400 lots to the east of Horseshoe Bend Rd later this year, Mr King said. State Government acquired land in this precinct in April to build a stand-alone secondary school on Surf Coast Hwy and a new primary school on South Beach Rd. The Independent reported last week that Villawood Properties planned to house more than 8000 residents nearby on its Armstrong site at Mt Duneed. Armstrong would include two hectares of wetlands and sculptures, a restaurant precinct, primary and high schools, sport facilities and a residents-only health club. City of Greater Geelong’s Terry Demeo told the developers’ meeting that Armstrong Creek’s first operating development, Warralily, had sold 800 blocks. Warralily director Mark Casey
Give us a break: Brydon King addresses the developers’ lunch meeting. Picture: Tommy Ritchie 84792
said last month that the project had spent $40 million on civil works for its first 16 stages since commencing work two years ago. Sixty private homes were under construction alongside building of display houses and civil works for a further 506 allotments, he said.
Councils alliance group G21 released a draft regional growth plan in April identifying four “key settlement breaks� between Armstrong Creek and Torquay, Geelong and Leopold, north-east of Lara and to Geelong’s west. The “environments between urban areas� were important for
water supply, agriculture, recreation, tourism, vegetation and habitats as well as for reinforcing towns’ identities, the report said. Plans for the corridor between Armstrong Creek and Torquay were “to ensure a strong farmed landscape character between
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these urban areas, encourage rural production and maintain town identities�. Mr King told the meeting the shire also planned to redesign Torquay’s Surf City precinct with a focus on tourism and to re-establish Gilbert St as the town’s official centre.
Bypass link to peninsula ‘studied’ as 4C revealed BY JOHN VAN KLAVEREN VICROADS has begun a study into the feasibility of linking Geelong’s ring road to the Bellarine Peninsula, Mayor John Mitchell has revealed. Cr Mitchell said VicRoads would spend $300,000 on the study. “We’ve spoken to VicRoads and regional parliamentarians about it (the peninsula link) and it’s still one of our priorities. “We know there’s a way to go with that but it’s the missing piece of the region’s infrastructure.� VicRoads this week announced two community information sessions on the ring road’s 4C Surf Coast Hwy extension. A VicRoads’ spokesperson said 4C had no allowance for a connection to the peninsula. But Cr Mitchell said the peninsula extension was firmly on council’s agenda. “I’d be surprised if the design couldn’t have extensions added to it. The ring road itself has already had three extensions that weren’t in the original plans.� South Barwon MP Andrew Katos said the peninsula link alignment would be finalised after completion of a structure plan for the Horseshoe Bend Rd area. “Until the alignment is finalised it’s hard to plan for the road but it will be an arterial, including several sets of lights. “It will never be a freeway to the Bellarine.� The VicRoads’ spokesperson said the information sessions would focus “purely� on 4C. The information sessions would not cover noise attenuation, a major concern of Grovedale and Waurn Ponds residents who opposed the route of 4C. “Noise modelling has not yet been done,� the spokesperson said. “Once the modelling has been completed we will determine what is required.�
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