By Alesha Capone
Wyndham council has received 20 objections to a planning permit seeking permission for the staged construction of a road, removal of native vegetation and alteration to the access of Ballan Road.
The $4.65 million plan aims to construct a road – named Mount Mary Road – from Ballan Road, near Ripley Road, to St Arnaud Road in Eynesbury.
The existing Mount Mary Road is an “unmade road” which is accessible via gates at both ends, and is used by the adjoining landowners and the CFA.
Documents submitted with the planning permit said that Wyndham council required stage one of Mount Mary Road to be operational no later than the 1800th residential lot is built in Eynesbury.
So far, more than 940 lots have been approved in Eynesbury, with 856 occupied dwellings.
Under the road project’s first stage, the existing intersection of Ballan Road and Mount Mary Road would be modified to include line marking and signage.
A “rural road” would also be constructed from Ballan Road to St Arnaud Road.
The second stage of the project includes plans to widen the intersection and introduce dedicated left and right turn lanes, with the speed limit reduced to 80 kilometres per hour.
Also during the second stage, the connection between Mount Mary Road and St Arnaud Road would be removed, to be replaced with an “urban road” that would extend further west and connect with Logan Street, or possibly another street.
The planning permit has been lodged with both Wyndham and Melton councils, as Eynesbury falls between the two municipalities.
