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It also highlights the need for “more diverse housing” in the town’s centre, which should be “at a scale and designed to respect the historic built form character”.<\/p>\n
PCA planning sub-committee member David Hughes said this issue highlighted the need for the City of Greater Geelong to update its planning framework for Portarlington, with the most recent review completed in 2017.<\/p>\n
“Portarlington development applications should be put on hold until the review is done to ensure such unsuitable applications do not slip through in the interim.”<\/p>\n
A representative for the site’s developers Greg Murray said he didn’t expect the park proposal to impact his project, and said planning was “full steam ahead” as the group continued discussions with the City of Greater Geelong.<\/p>\n
“The PCA keep saying that they want the state and federal government to buy it back\u2026 we haven’t heard from anybody in regards to that.<\/p>\n
“As far as we’re concerned, that’s just noise.”<\/p>\n
Mr Murray said developers had scaled back plans, to positive feedback from authorities and community members, following a failed earlier attempt to earn planning approval that COGG and the state Planning Minister rejected.<\/p>\n
The amended plan before COGG is for a four-storey building plus basement carpark, which is three storeys when viewed from Newcombe Street due to the land’s slope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PORTARLINGTON Community Association (PCA) is ramping up its campaign for the proposed site of a multi-storey development at Newcombe Street to become public green space. PCA has formed a sub-committee to pursue its vision for an urban coastal park on the bay side of the town’s main street as it continues its opposition to a […]<\/p>\n