Developers who care
My family and I have lived in Warragul for more than nine years and we love the spirit of community which makes up this great town.
The Warragul Farmer;s Market, the one of a kind restaurants, Carols in the Park and impromptu community get together make Warragul an awesome place to raise a family.
The creation of the Two Towns Trail and the Brooker Park trails have been great areas for our family to ride bikes, go for walks and meet up with other members of the community.
However, Warragul is a growing community. It is estimated by our own shire that the population of Baw baw will exceed 60,000 residents by 2026, which is only 10 years away.
Where is the infrastructure needed to support this kind of population growth? Where are the housing subdivisions needed and retail shops to support the growth of the shire over the next decade? They are just not here.
Residents are frustrated we are tired of having to travel over 30 minutes to do some decent shopping, renters are frustrated at the lack of available houses for the growing rental market. We need more schools, parks and amenities.
Baw Baw Shire needs to pick up its game and stop blocking developments with lame excuses about preserving a group of pine trees and look at the bigger picture. Yes we want to preserve farmland and provide park spaces for families to spend time together but we also need to look ahead to the future of our shire an see the need for subdivisions to be approved.
The shire has stated that it wants the trees to remain in this subdivision so there can be a reference that this was once a faming community.
If any of these pine trees were ever to fall and cause injury (which is highly likely considering the amount of trees that fall over when we have stormy weather) what possible response could the shire give?
Come on councillors and planners look to the future and stop holding up progress of the shire with petty excuses.
Give our community the chance to enjoy the extensions of Brooker Park, more walking trails, schools and housing opportunities.
This developer obviously cares about the community and instead of just planning only houses has actually put thought into the safety of our children and providing a safe way for them to walk to school, areas for parks and recreation and the opportunity for people to purchase blocks of differing sizes and frontages.
I say well done to Liz Daniels and her father for being developers who care about the community and are not just out to make a quick dollar developing small lots and turning our beautiful town into another Pakenham or Clyde North Tanya van Praag Warragul