McHarry's Buses wants to build a depot for its buses in Drysdale and turn a beautiful park like setting into a bitumen heat sink.
To make this happen, the Geelong Council is running a Public Exhibition of the Drysdale Urban Design Framework Amendment C283.
The amendment is open for comment from anyone who wants to from 17 January 2014 to 24 February 2014.
The land affected by the amendment applies to all land in and around the Drysdale town centre within the Drysdale Urban Design Framework study area.
The land affected by this particular application is 97 – 105 Murradoc Road, Drysdale and McHarrys Buslines has applied for the permit.
The Amendment proposes to make changes to the Municipal Strategic Statement and apply new zones and overlays in accordance with recommendations of the Drysdale Urban Design Framework.
The application is for a permit for buildings and works and new road access in association with a bus depot.
Currently this block has a house on an open park like environment with lots of trees.
It is proposed to keep the existing house, but around 75% of the grounds will be either put under bitumen or paving. The amount of fumes, maintenance noise, heat reflection which will be generated will affect the residents either side of this eyesore, not to mention the number of large vehicles going to this depot and in and out of the entrance will increase heavy vehicle traffic on Murradoc Road.
This will compound the existing traffic making its way to the council tip. Something all of us in Murradoc Road are really looking forward to.
Below is a plan showing what McHarry's proposes to do with this site.
More information about the proposed amendment is available from the City of Greater Geelong website. And they call this progress.
