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most certain that the protesters or the applicant would appeal against the decision. “I’m 90 per cent sure it will go to VCAT and I’m happy to facilitate a meeting with our senior planners so the protesters have reasonable grounds to argue. “It is going to be a big unit development and there is going to be an overflow of cars but if you come here at 7pm at night 90 per ent of the cars parked here during the day are gone,” Cr Morland said. Residents claim the street al-
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ready becomes gridlocked with 10 businesses at the entrance to the lane along with the RSL and linen trucks which frequent the medical centres. Mr Moyes thinks the apartments will look like a concrete block, “which doesn’t match the character of the street,” but Cr Morland argues the apartments will make a wonderful addition to the street. “I think they will be state-of-theart so I don’t think they will be affordable for first home buyers,” Cr Morland said.
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car and most people will be driving to work during the day and once the Coles supermarket and City of Casey car park is built it will help to relieve congestion in Langmore Lane with an extra 80 car parks available around the corner,” Cr Morland said. The proposed multi-level building was set to house 22 apartments but due to height restrictions the City of Casey approved 20 apartments, 33 car spaces and three visitor car parks. After the council’s amended proposal Cr Morland said he was al-
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LANGMORE Lane residents fear their leafy street will become an even greater gridlocked traffic hazard as new residents move into a proposed three storey apartment block. They said the downgraded plan, which reduced the number of apartments, does nothing to ease their concerns – and has left both sides up in arms. Resident of Langmore Lane for 28 years Don Moyes has been back and forth with the City of Casey about the lane’s ‘bottleneck’ and
crowded street parking since 2001 and said the pending development will only make it worse. “They have been given a permit of 33 car spaces for a block of 20 apartments – I’ve worked out with the number of bedrooms a total of 52 cars maximum could reside there – leaving an overflow of 19 cars onto the street,” Mr Moyes said. Casey mayor Mick Morland said that the council was projecting a maximum of just six cars to spill out onto the street. “Every bedroom doesn’t have a
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