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THE City of Greater Geelong has overruled a restrictive covenant applying to St Albans Park properties and approved a two-lot subdivision.<\/p>\n

A Decision Making Committee met last week and approved the plan at 31-33 Woods Road to slice the 3,200sqm block.<\/p>\n

The property’s rear boundary is about 50 metres from the suburb’s “Phar Lap tree”, which recently won heritage protection<\/a> following a lengthy community campaign<\/a> against an ongoing subdivision plan for its property.<\/p>\n

Objectors feared that a subdivision could open the floodgates to further higher-density development in the area where land titles have been protected with a covenant that suggests maintaining lifestyle properties.<\/p>\n

But the council has recently received legal advice that the covenant is not binding, and supported the subdivision at its behind-closed-doors meeting last week.<\/p>\n

“The proposal was considered to be appropriate in the context of the Planning Scheme and a Notice of Decision to grant a Planning Permit, subject to conditions, was issued,” city planning and economy director Gareth Smith said.<\/p>\n

“The planning process provides that objectors\/submitters to the application can appeal the decision to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal if they wish to do so.”<\/p>\n

Objectors to the Woods Road proposal had called for a public meeting to consider the matter in front of the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE City of Greater Geelong has overruled a restrictive covenant applying to St Albans Park properties and approved a two-lot subdivision. A Decision Making Committee met last week and approved the plan at 31-33 Woods Road to slice the 3,200sqm block. The property’s rear boundary is about 50 metres from the suburb’s “Phar Lap tree”, […]<\/p>\n

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