City of Greater Geelong is considering a a permit to have a new Milemaker service station located at the Jetty/Grubb Road roundabout in Drysdale.
The first I heard about it was reading it in the Bellarine Times 6th February edition on Saturday. The closing date for submissions was the 7th February - the day before. Trying to find information about this on the Geelong Council website proved fruitless. Or maybe I was looking in the wrong place?
Below I have included a list of articles I found online about the proposal - including a map from the Drysdale Clifton Springs Community Association which I have linked to below.
I have posted on the Geelong Mayor - Darryn Lyon's Facebook page tonight asking him to investigate the proposal. He has undertaken to get back to me tomorrow.
Servo bid reveals lights 'plan'
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN, The Bellarine Independent, 6 February 2014
AN APPLICATION for a third Drysdale service station indicates Vicroads proposes to replace the town's congested Jetty-Grubb-Portarlington roads roundabout with traffic lights. But Vicroads said it was only investigating and had no plans to upgrade the intersection. A Caltex service station with six double car fuel pumps and
Association puts servo permit under the pump
The Bellarine Times, James Taylor February 6, 2014
The City of Greater Geelong (COGG) is seeking feedback on a plan to build another service station in Drysdale, but the Drysdale and Clifton Springs Community Association has challenged the council's handling of the application process and the proposal's explanation of how it complies with planning laws.
Milemaker Petroleum has applied for a permit to build a service station at 331 Jetty Road, Drysdale, on the wedge of land between Jetty Road to the west and Geelong-Portarlington Road to the east.
The site – which is just over 2,996 square metres in size – will include a car refuelling area with six double-sided pumps, a truck refuelling area with two pumps, a 400-square-metre service station building and seven car parks.
Community Group Says a Firm "no"
by Stephanie Drysdale & Clifton Springs Voice, February 2014.
"The Drysdale and Clifton Springs Community Association is objecting to a proposed industrial scale project. A six double-pump service station has been proposed on the land running between the southern ends of Jetty Road and Portarlington Rd in Drysdale.
The application made to the City of Greater Geelong by Caltex franchisee Milkemaker Petroleum has the community group up in arms, believing the application has been made inept for public comment as well as transgressing and contradicting many planning policies..."
Council restricts public comment on proposed new service station in Drysdale
Drysdale Clifton Springs Community Association, Wednesday, January 29, 2014.
Caltex franchisee Milemaker Petroleum has applied to the City of Greater Geelong (CoGG) to build a service station with 6 double-pumps on the land between the southern ends of Jetty Road and Portarlington Road.
CoGG has invited public comments on the proposal during the period 21 January to 7 February 2014. A plan of the proposal is shown above. The red triangle shows the property affected; the blue arrow on the right points to the location of the proposed service station; and the proposal includes plans for a road connecting Jetty Road and Portarlington Road across the property, but this isn't shown.Details of the proposal are allegedly available from CoGG's web site, but today, at least, they weren't! ..."
